It's hard to know what kind of art, if any, is being made in North Korea. I would say it's safe to guess that anything being made would be laced with propaganda. Of the little carefully selected by North Korea to be presented to the rest of the world we are usually faced with their Mass Games ceremony. North Korea is careful not to present themselves as impoverished but instead as a country booming with food, enterprise, happy citizens, and art.
I would classify the artistic identity of North Korea as their large, card flipping, human mosaics. One can barely pay attention to the news and current events and still know that North Korea is into card flipping!
Here are some images of these enormous human mosaics.
September 9, 2012
Arirang Mass Game performance in Pyongyang
Detail of above.
Photo Credit: Sam Gellman
About 300,000 flip cards at the 2011 Mass Games.
These cards were manned by children.
Photo Credit: Sam Gellman
Detail.
Photo Credit: Sam Gellman
Mass Games, year unknown.
Photo Credit: Sam Gellman
Mass Games, year unknown.
Photo Credit: Sam Gellman
Mass Games, year unknown.
Kim Il-Sung
It's evident that the human mosaics are also a way for the North Korean government to indoctrinate its people with the glory and right of the dictatorship.
- Grace
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