Korean flower arrangement is being revived as an indoor art, and most often uses simple Joseon dynasty whiteware to highlight Korean flowers and tree branches in elegant and unforced natural arrangements.[1] Im Wha-Kong of Ewha Woman's University in Seoul, who also makes her own ceramic wares, is the greatest living exponent of this art, and hosts quarterly displays of flower arrangements keeping this tradition alive. There are at least a dozen schools of traditional flower arrangements.
Formal flower arrangements were closely allied to the development of the Korean tea ceremony, and suggestions have been made that these were often corner-of-the-room arrangements on small tables using a central vessel with most often a small branch and a small group of local flowers. Sprigs of pear blossoms were particularly well known, and during the winters ever-green sprigs that would have enhanced celadon ware, or given a cool elegance to whiteware were used.
Leaves, blossoms, ferns, and grasses were also used.
Arrangements were primarily done by women in tea-houses and in the greater houses. Confucian male masters may have done this as well.
Historyedit
This floral art was not documented before the 14th century as a distinct art. Votive altar arrangements of flowers for Buddhist temples were precursors. But it was under Confucian hands, in Joseon Yi dynasty times, that arrangements can be said definitely to have begun and were known, and included in illustrations by artists of that time.
Major schools of Korean flower arrangingedit
Catherine Muller CASA school
Jane Packer Seoul
Atelier FleurHeesoo (Gangnam, Seoul)- flower arrangement school of traditional french style (www.fleurheesoo.com)
Jeju Island school
Seoul schools
Pusan (Busan) schools
Mountain schools
Palace school
Jeonju Tea ceremony school - based in Jeonju with a frequent use of pine, and flowering blossoms of pear;
Wha-Kong Hoe school - based in Seoul, and representing the work of Madame Wha-Kong and her natural approach to the art, with ceramics by her own hand in traditional Confucian patterns;
Pyong-yang schools - traditional flower arrangements are an important part of northern Korean culture.
"Oriental Flower Arrangement" in three volumes and "Oriental Flower Arrangement 100" in four volumes by Im Wha-Kong, Seoul, 1995
External linksedit
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