Dobrovits Aladár szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 5. (Budapest, 1962)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Ferenczy, László: The Collection of Corean Industrial Art. A Gift of the Corean People's Democratic Republic

Fig. 2. Blue and white vase of late I-period various branches of industrial art. Several new porcelain-factories have been built. Ceramic art, being in constant decadence since the end of the I-period, has produced prominent results already. Old traditions of lacquer-work and mother of pearl's inlay have been renewed and many objects of high artistic quality have been produced. In silk-embroidering new realistic tasks were solved in traditional techniques. Embroidering of portraits and landscapes attained a high degree of perfection. Plating with horn and working up horsehair (specific branches of Corean industrial art) have started a new development. The almost forgotten carving of semi-precious stones and some other branches of industrial art are revived again. In March 1958 the ministerial council passed a resolution on the development of industrial art and decided to enlarge the state enterprises and cooperatives in order to promote the production and export of such articles. The Japanese wanted to replace the traditions of Corean art by those of their own. The Art Alliance, founded in 1925, unifying ali the progressive artists, fought with success against it. Industrial art was purified of the detrimental foreign influences. At present Coreans intend to revive national traditions, having fallen already into oblivion, in old form, but with new contents. On the whole, their industrial art developed in the right direction since 1945. It made the first steps towards becoming a veritable national art bell* 149