early life and education yun dong-ju, also known as dongju yoon, was a korean poet born in longjing, jilin, china in 1917. his life, though short, was marked by an intense passion for both poetry and painting, which he honed through his studies at the myeongdong school, soongsil middle school, and yonhi college in korea. later, he moved to kyoto doshisha university in japan, where his artistic expression began to take shape. artistic expression and activism yun's work is characterized by its lyric poetries and poems dedicated to the korean independence movement against the empire of japan. th…
A chart of Yun Dong-Ju's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.