{"id":1471,"date":"2025-01-30T19:08:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T19:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2025-01-30T19:08:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T19:08:35","slug":"eun-ju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/01\/30\/eun-ju\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Eun Ju&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"369\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Eun_Ju_Arnolfini_Marriage_Andrew_Tift_Study_2004_WebAug2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1473\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Eun_Ju_Arnolfini_Marriage_Andrew_Tift_Study_2004_WebAug2020.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=1473\" class=\"wp-image-1473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Eun_Ju_Arnolfini_Marriage_Andrew_Tift_Study_2004_WebAug2020.jpg 369w, https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Eun_Ju_Arnolfini_Marriage_Andrew_Tift_Study_2004_WebAug2020-157x300.jpg 157w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 369px) 85vw, 369px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Charlotte_Iggulden_Oil_Painting_Eun_Ju_Andrew_Tift_example-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1472\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Charlotte_Iggulden_Oil_Painting_Eun_Ju_Andrew_Tift_example-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=1472\" class=\"wp-image-1472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Charlotte_Iggulden_Oil_Painting_Eun_Ju_Andrew_Tift_example-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Charlotte_Iggulden_Oil_Painting_Eun_Ju_Andrew_Tift_example-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Charlotte_Iggulden_Oil_Painting_Eun_Ju_Andrew_Tift_example-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Charlotte_Iggulden_Oil_Painting_Eun_Ju_Andrew_Tift_example-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Charlotte_Iggulden_Oil_Painting_Eun_Ju_Andrew_Tift_example-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Charlotte_Iggulden_Oil_Painting_Eun_Ju_Andrew_Tift_example-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">&#8216;Eun Ju&#8217;, oil paint on paper. After artist Andrew Tift&#8217;s &#8216;Alexander and Eun Ju.&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This was one of my oil painting studies in 2005, part of my art project which explored cultural identity and the intellectual legacy of indigenous cultures, as well as &#8216;non-western&#8217; cultural traditions.<br><br>Painted on A3 cartridge paper (in very small brushes!), it depicts &#8216;Eun Ju&#8217;, after artist Andrew Tift&#8217;s &#8216;Alexander and Eun Ju.&#8217;<br><br>The original portrait took on new significance for me as it was Tift&#8217;s subjective take on Jan Van Eyck&#8217;s Arnolfini marriage, painted in 1422-4. Filled with symbolism, it shows both the unifying, protection and preservation of cultures, something of interest to me with my own cultural background.<br><br>Eun Ju wears a hanbok, perhaps to sustain Korean tradition. Along with language, religion and cultural patterns such as dance, food, housing and aesthetics, apparel plays a vital role in the preservation and expression of cultural identity.<br><br>My school entered my art project, titled &#8216;Vanishing Cultures&#8217; into the Surrey Art Award, and I&#8217;m delighted to say it won first place.<br><br>I had begun selling my paintings to my teachers a few years before this, but around this time I began portrait commissions that continued to this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was one of my oil painting studies in 2005, part of my art project which explored cultural identity and the intellectual legacy of indigenous cultures, as well as &#8216;non-western&#8217; cultural traditions. Painted on A3 cartridge paper (in very small brushes!), it depicts &#8216;Eun Ju&#8217;, after artist Andrew Tift&#8217;s &#8216;Alexander and Eun Ju.&#8217; The original &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/01\/30\/eun-ju\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Eun Ju&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}