Core 30/CORE 03 / 30
Changdeokgung Palace
창덕궁
- From representation to being
- academic discipline
- formal transition
Before the painting
Upright trees, a pavilion and tiled roofs occupy a snow-covered palace garden, rendered with controlled perspective and delicate blue shadows.
Art-Historical Structure
The painting demonstrates Byun’s command of observation and representation. Its ordered space becomes the reference point from which the later Jeju works can be understood.
In Jeju, his attention moved from the structure of a branch to the force that bends it, and from the appearance of a house to its posture of endurance. This was a deliberate movement from representation toward being.
Key Sentence
He did not abandon objects; he began to paint the force moving through them.CORE 03 · Changdeokgung Palace · 1970
Image and base identification: byunshiji.org / works / 037
Philosophical statements are critical interpretations grounded in the work, not presented as direct quotations from the artist.