During the Korean War, Korean artist Woonbo Kim Ki-chang began a series of ink paintings depicting the life of Jesus using his own country as the backdrop. “I was praying for the quick end of the Korean War and a unified peace, and soothed my painful mind with a paintbrush,” he later said.
Kim passed away in 2001, but his work was featured at a museum in Seoul in 2013. The paintings are by no means historically or Biblically accurate, but are meant to symbolize the fact that Jesus came for all cultures and ethnicities. Some have called these painting “shameless,” but I love the transcultural depiction of God in them. What do you think?
The Annunciation:
The Nativity:
The Adoration of the Magi:
The Flight to Egypt:
The Baptism of Jesus:
Jesus Calls His First Disciples:
The Feeding of the 5000:
Jesus Walks on Water:
Jesus and the Woman Caught in Adultery:
Woman Washes Jesus’ Feet With Her Tears:
Jesus’ Entry into Jerusalem:
Jesus’ Agony in the Garden of Gethsemene:
The Last Supper:
Jesus’ Trial Before Pilate:
Jesus is Scourged at the Pillar:
Jesus Carries His Cross:
The Crucifixion:
Jesus’ Body is Taken to the Tomb:
The Resurrection:
The Ascension:
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