Sunday, April 20, 2008

목켸 The monkey man



..수,당,송,원,면,청..

..Soo, Dang, Song, Won, Myun, Chung..

I had a brief lesson about the different periods in Chinese history. I asked a studio-mate about a book he was reading that traced the history of chinese painting, and ended up in a discussion about a few of the works.
This was done by an artist with a name that sounds like "Monkey" after you translate it into Korean, and further degrade it into English. He worked in the Song dynasty, which falls in about 1200AD. The balance between detailed areas, and completely empty areas I find interesting in this work, as is the easy manner in the execution.

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