DAY 290
Schildering, AK-MAK-290-L — Rijksmuseum
Schildering, AK-MAK-290-L Rijksmuseum · 18th century · Wikimedia Commons CC0 View source ↗

Schildering, AK-MAK-290-L

산수 (지두화)
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING

"What charm does a landscape shaped by fingertips hold that brush painting does not?"

📝ONGO's Reflection

This is yet another landscape among the twelve finger-paintings by the Qing dynasty painter Gao Qipei. Because it was drawn with the fingers, the lines are rough yet bear a living vitality. Though it came from the tradition of Chinese painting, its charm carries anywhere. I see, in these rough lines, the power of candor over smoothness. Though not as even as a brush, the marks the fingertips touched directly hold an unadorned vividness. It is not only refined perfection that is beautiful. Even rough, what holds sincerity moves a person's heart more deeply. The touch of the hand comes from honesty.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

Rather than straining to dress things up smoothly, choose the grain where candor is alive.

📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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