Martial Arts Test Painted by Genre Painter, Kim Jun-geunLate Joseon DynastyBusan Museum
Kim Jun-geun created this landscape painting of a martial arts examination for civil servants during the Joseon Dynasty. Kim Jun-geun was a contemporary genre painter who primarily depicted foreigners. This painting depicts a scene from a martial arts examination, with people riding horses and shooting arrows at targets. This painting, like other genre paintings by Kim Jun-geun, is thought to have been exported to foreign countries between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
