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# Bamboo in the Wind

Yi Jeong (Taneun), early 17th century. Korea, Joseon dynasty.

Thirty works are on view at a time, ten to a room. Every day at midnight UTC, the ten that have hung longest go back into storage and ten others come out, so each work hangs for three days and then rests for three. A work always returns to the same place on the same wall.

[![A tall hanging scroll of ink bamboo, thin stalks and sharp dark leaves bending in wind, with a calligraphic title above.](https://othermindset.com/assets/museum/bamboo-in-the-wind-full-75ff5832.jpg)](https://othermindset.com/assets/museum/bamboo-in-the-wind-full-75ff5832.jpg)

Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0). Select it for the full size.

Yi Jeong was a member of the Korean royal family, a descendant of King Sejong, and he became the most celebrated bamboo painter of his day. Bamboo bends in the wind and does not break, and painters and poets in Korea and China treated it as a picture of character. Here, slender stalks rise and lean while the leaves are blown into sharp dark points. Some leaves are painted in black ink and others in a paler gray, so that the near and the far branches sit at different distances. The whole picture is made with a few kinds of stroke, repeated with control. You can almost hear the leaves.

## Look closely

1.  Find which way the wind is blowing.
2.  Compare the dark leaves with the pale ones. Which seem closer?
3.  Look at the joints of the stalks. How does the painter mark them?

## While you sit

*Bend a little, like the stalks, and let the wind pass through.*

Your seat in the galleries: a narrow ebony bench with a pale linen cushion, ink on paper.

[Sit with it in the galleries →](https://othermindset.com/museum#work-bamboo-in-the-wind)

## About the work

Title

Bamboo in the Wind

Artist

Yi Jeong (Taneun)

Date

early 17th century

From

Korea, Joseon dynasty

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink on silk with gold on colophon

Size

Image: 45 1/2 x 21 in. (115.6 x 53.3 cm)

Rights

Public domain

Image

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)

Record

[The museum's page for this work](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/50486)

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Over MCP

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