Academics
Department of Oriental Painting of Sungshin Women's University enhances the understanding of culture and arts and establishes personal identity and artistic ideal. Through practicing the techniques of traditional painting and understanding its content, the program aims to explore the possibility of development into our own art form and foster unique and creative artists.
Educational Goals of Departments
Studying the contemporary sense of beauty and understanding the development of traditional art through education about traditional art.
- Improving the understanding of East Asian art and improving the ability of expression in it through the representational analysis of traditional painting and refining its techniques.
- Learning new representational methods with various materials and through representational experiments and improving the ability to effect the modern-style representation of the traditional elements to render them into a distinctive art.
- Exploring more upfront possibilities of contemporary East Asian art by analyzing the cutting-edge discourse of contemporary art and experiencing new media.
- Studying contemporary sense of beauty by understanding the development of the traditional art.
Students Envisioned by Departments
Professional artists who conspire with the times through their aesthetic sense in the style of the East Asian art.