Summary: Collection of Paintings of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il

kim il kwang and chon hak-choi,
"embraced by the great general's love"

from Feuerbach's Essence of Christianity Part I: The True or Anthropological Essence of Religion Mind presenting itself as at once type-creating, emotional, and sensuous, is the imagination. The second Person in God, who is in truth the first person in religion, is the nature of the imagination made objective. The definitions of the second Person are principally images or symbols; and these images do not proceed from man's incapability of conceiving the object otherwise than symbolically, -- which is an altogether false interpretation, -- but the thing cannot be conceived otherwise than symbolically because the thing itself is a symbol or image. The Son is, therefore, expressly called the Image of God; his essence is that he is an image -- the representation of God, the visible glory of the invisible God. The Son is the satisfaction of the need for mental images, the nature of the imaginative activity in man made objective as an absolute, divine activity [...] The Son is the chief and ultimate principle of image-worship, for he is the image of God; and the image necessarily takes the place of the thing.





chung young-man, "the great leader kim il-sung
and the dear leader kim jong-il
at heaven lake on mount paektu", 1983


"it has been suggested that "the whole landscape of the DPRK is a realm of hyper-reality, a theme park to the memory of the dear leader." (peter atkins). this extreme view of north korea may have been expressed because the writer found it difficult to escape anywhere from the images of the Great Leader or one of his quotations or some other physical manifestation of his all-pervading presence." - from jane portal's Art Under Control in North Korea



kang jong-ho, "happiness", 1978
accompanying text published by Foreign Languages Press in Pyongyang:
"She has received presents full of love from General Kim Il-sung the affectionate father,
presents which he sends to all the children in the land every New Year."



chung young-man, "the great leader kim il-sung
and the dear leader kim jong-il
discussing the plans for the
construction of the juche tower
and the arch of triumph", 1980