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Four Seasons of Hong Ji-Yoon – Moving Ink Painting and Poem

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2015-02-25 04:58
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Four Seasons

Four Seasons of Hong Ji-Yoon – Moving Ink Painting and Poem

Hong Ji-Yoon’s work (Hong Ji-Yoon’s Oriental fusion painting) that deals with Ink paintings (Oriental painting) and graphic images is based on free thinking about nature and recognizes the traditional concepts of Oriental painting; that is, poetry, calligraphy, and pictures and of which calligraphy and pictures have the same source.
My works also truly and delicately express human sentiments and other sides of things of daily life and the flow of emotions that one may feel while living a life through the form of ink paintings and diary, or a poem. Those things are connected as one and become a moving picture – an animation.

This exhibition tries to express my feelings on the changes of seasons in daily life. There are brilliant sadness and philosophical romance in the thinking about the changes of the four seasons. The “Four Seasons” where the poem becomes a picture and the picture becomes the poem, describes brilliant spring as “gorgeous one” with all things blooming; summer as “passion” with all sensory organs fully blossomed as they are; autumn as “melancholy” for the things that have disappeared; and winter as “solitude” for the things that have “fallen asleep”. Thinking it over, a painting or a poem is a work for observing a certain time (season), meeting by accident on a path of drifting life and then to record the season. Thinking that way, feeling that way, and realizing that way, I tell the story of four seasons by writing a poem, doing calligraphy, and drawing a picture just like making a light joke.

The images of a ink painting for which the motive is the seasons and a life become a new ink painting by representing a poem, calligraphy, and an ink picture on a paper with an ink brush, which was done so in many paintings painted by ancient aristocrats, in one space and in the form of a graphic image and text.
This exhibition is an experiment on how the concept and expressive form of a traditional Oriental painting may be reinterpreted in present times. The ink painting images of Hong Ji-Yoon suggests an on-going and open ink painting, living a current life.

I hope my ink painting animation will be a new classic that is easier and more popular with a warm harmony of analogue and digital expression through my exhibition.

Further, I hope this will be remembered by you as one that comfortably approaches the hearts of the person living in contemporary time, sharing the pleasure with them, and making one another happy.

Hong Ji Yoon