Core 30/CORE 12 / 30
Plowing
밭갈이
- Dried-grass colour
- earth and body
- persistence
Before the painting
Beneath a hazy red sun, human and horse work a dry field, their outlines entering the colour and movement of the earth.
Art-Historical Structure
Human, animal and earth meet within the movement of labour. The colour is not merely ochre or local soil; it is dried-grass colour, life remaining after exposure and depletion.
It contains both exhaustion and persistence—the living time that continues after splendour has faded.
Key Sentence
Dried-grass colour is not dead earth, but living time left after endurance.CORE 12 · Plowing · 1979
Image and base identification: byunshiji.org / works / 042
Philosophical statements are critical interpretations grounded in the work, not presented as direct quotations from the artist.