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JMT Creative Arts's avatar

Thank you for the video link; amazing animation and sound track. AI at work?

Nice article about Kim Hong-do's art and a fun venture into the possibility that Sharaku could have been Kim Hong-do. I also enjoyed the painting of 씨름 (ssi-reum), having just become familiar with the sport of Korean wrestling. This article is full of Korean cultural history. 감사

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LA Seoulite's avatar

I think it was before AI, it's more than 10 years old, I think.

You've watched 씨름? Now you're becoming hardcore Korea-phile, not that you weren't before... Despite obvious similarities, it's distinctly different from the Japanese sumo, where things can get pretty violent.

I didn't get into it because I really don't know how to look at them, but the brush strokes between Kim Hong-do and Sharaku are (although the paintings as a whole look decidedly different) supposedly very similar.

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