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Autumn at Aeryeonjeong
가을 애련정
- Memory of abundance
- colour
- reduction
Before the painting
A pavilion and pond in Changdeokgung’s rear garden are immersed in blue and golden foliage, their architecture and reflections densely filling the canvas.
Art-Historical Structure
The work contains a chromatic richness rarely encountered in Byun’s mature Jeju paintings. It demonstrates that his later reduction of colour was a deliberate choice rather than a limitation.
He had learned how fully a canvas could be filled before he began to empty it. The later dried-grass palette emerged after abundance, not before it.
Key Sentence
Byun Shi-Ji’s restraint was born not from a lack of colour, but from having passed through its abundance.CORE 02 · Autumn at Aeryeonjeong · 1965
Image and base identification: byunshiji.org / works / 036
Philosophical statements are critical interpretations grounded in the work, not presented as direct quotations from the artist.