DAY 357
Birds and Flowers <
화조도
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"What vitality do the flowers and birds of a lively brush convey?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This Chinese bird-and-flower painting by Hua Yan breathes vitality into flower and bird with a free and lively stroke. An energy caught in a single breath, rather than finely refined, brings the surface alive. A brush that chose living force over perfect description holds the leap of life dearer than the precision of form. To refine well is not the only good. Sometimes a greater life dwells in the unrefined and the rough. Between precision and vitality, which one to keep alive is, in the end, what decides a painting's rank.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
A task you halted while trying to perfect, carry through in one breath, keeping its momentum alive.
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📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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