Breaking the Silence (Cat Stealing a Chick)

Kim Deuk-sin

Painted

c. 1780

Collection

Kansong Art Museum

A cat bolts with a chick in its mouth, the hen gives chase with wings spread, and the man who was weaving a mat on the porch lunges after it with his pipe, losing his hat in mid-air while his wife shrieks behind him. Kim Deuk-sin catches the instant a quiet farmhouse afternoon is shattered, with the timing of a cartoon.

Object record (Wikimedia Commons) · Public domain

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