Iemke
Hans Bakker van Guelph Joined: July 19th 2008
Logged in: March 12th 2010
Logged in: March 12th 2010
Travel Blog Posts
Boryeong Mud Festival
Here are some photos from June 2008 that I recently received from Tim Lentz. Iemke ... read more
snaps
I am about to return to Canada. It has been an exciting summer. I will try to post a few pictures. My next trip will be to Innsbruck, Austria, in September. ... read more
Jamaica Plain Monument statue
Here are some pictures of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, at Jamaica Pond. (I hope I got this right!)... read more
Drawing of Korean Man by J. Hans Bakker van Guelph
Drawing Inspired by Art at Seoul Museum of Art During my first visit to the Seoul Museum of Art I was so inspired by the drawings I saw that I decided to buy some drawing pencils and I made this little sketch. My mom (in Dutch "Mam") used to take me to the Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, when I was a boy. But I have not drawn anything since I was about sixteen. Now in my dottering (spelling?) old age I have suddenly rediscovered the desire to draw and perhaps paint again. The art work here in Korea really is quite good and in Cheonan I visited a major gallery. There is a great deal of experimental art coming out of the People's Republic of China and some of it is very provocative and ... read more
Museums Aplenty in Seoul My visits to the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMa, line 1 or 2 to City Hall subway station, exits 1, 11, 12) have been more interesting than I thought they would be. First I stumbled on it after visiting the Deoksugung Palace grounds and seeing the changing of the guard. You may find something great, or you may not like it too much, but it is only 700 Won (70 cents) so it is worth a try if you are in the vicinity of Deoksugung Palace and City Hall. Chun's Paintings For example, they had an excellent display of work by a woman artist named Kyung-Jay Chun (Chun Kyung-Jay). Why is she not better known? Why is there no book of her work in English (as far as I can tell)? She ... read more
A travel book I read on the plane told about a Canadian soldier who had experienced Korea during the Korean War as nothing but lots of mud. What he did not have in mind, of course, is the Boryeong Mud Festival. The Boryeong Mud Festival has become justly famous for its somewhat wilder side, especially with the American GI's there on the last weekend. This year there is also an all night RAVE. There are lots of good pictures on the web of Americans looking silly, but they mostly seem to be having lots of fun haming it up for the Korea photographers. They are great pictures. But I feel that the pictures which are shown on the web are somewhat unrepresentative. For example, there are a lot of Koreans doing the mud thing during the ... read more
