Moral Painting - Kyo-kunga

Japanese: 教訓画 - きょうくんが
Moral Painting - Kyo-kunga

...Also, in individual tableaux, allegorical paintings that praised earthly values ​​and were supported by a happy feeling of life flourished, such as Jan Bruegel's Allegory of the Five Senses and the Four Seasons, Jordaens's Allegory of Abundance, and Bouet's Triumph of Hope, Love, and Beauty over Time. On the other hand, in the Protestant Netherlands, the theme of the source of sin, which was painted in series in the Middle Ages, such as P. Claesz's Still Life with a Skull (1630), which teaches the lesson of "remembering death" with a table clock, a smoking lamp, and a skull, and JM Molenaer's The World of Women, which warns against "vanity" with the act of having a maid comb her head, a skull, and soap bubbles, has now become an independent subject for didactic paintings. In addition, the Spanish tapestry "The Weavers" by Velázquez was also a favorite technique of using a wall-hanging tapestry as a painting within a painting to allude to the allegorical theme of the triumph of painting over technology.

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "moral teaching paintings" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また個々のタブローにしてもヤン・ブリューゲルの〈五感〉や〈四季〉のアレゴリー,ヨルダーンスの〈豊穣〉,ブーエの〈時に対する希望,愛,美の勝利〉といった地上的価値を賛美し,幸福な生活感情に支えられた寓意画が栄える。他面,プロテスタント国オランダでは,P.クラースの《頭蓋骨のある静物》(1630)に見られるように,卓上の時計,煙るランプ,頭蓋骨などによる〈死を記憶せよ〉の教訓,J.M.モレナールの《婦人の世界》の,召使に頭をとかさせる行為,頭蓋骨,シャボン玉などによる〈虚栄(ウァニタスvanitas)〉の戒めなど,中世にシリーズで描かれた罪源のテーマがいまや教訓画のための独立した主題となる。このほか,スペインのベラスケスの《織女たち》のように,壁にかけられた画中画的存在のタピスリーによって,技術に対する絵画芸術の勝利という主題の寓意性を暗喩する手法も愛好された。…

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