DAY 203
Birds and Flowers colors on paper hanging scrol The Museum of Modern Art Shiga
화조도 (종이에 채색, 족자)
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"What mood does a painting of flowers and birds in clear color convey?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This is a hanging scroll of birds and flowers painted in color on paper by the Japanese Nanga painter Tanomura Chokunyu. The plainness of literati painting is steeped in it, clear and trim rather than lavish. In this restrained coloring I see the depth of plainness. Color is stronger the deeper it is, but pale color does not weary even when kept and looked at long. What can be kept beside you over time is more precious than what seizes the eye at once. Faintness is not weakness but the choice of one who knows what lasts.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Rather than being strong at once, choose a faintness you can keep beside you long.
淡
📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
Deep cheonjamun study →
