Wu Tribes People Hunting

Yang P'aeng-son is a representative scholar painter of the early Choson dynasty (1392-1910), who is thought to have studied landscape painting under the preeminent Korean painter, An Kyon (act. c. 1400-70). Known for his ink paintings, works in color by P'aeng-son, such as this with sharp brushstrokes suggestive of masterful techniques of Chinese Southern Song academic painting, are highly unusual.
According to the poem inscription, the archer on horseback is a girl from the Wu clan, who having shot an arrow suddenly felt remorse for the wild geese and hoped that it would not hit them. The scene depicts the moment in which the young woman is torn by a sense of remorse. The main focus of the sceneﾑthe figures, horses, and geeseﾑare brilliantly painted in bright colors, while the surrounding field is executed simply in light colors. Time is eternally captured in the dramatic moment that the arrow is released, leaving one to wonder if the geese will be struck or not.