FŪDO · RESEARCH
Research
Map
Beginning at the painted surface, moving through life, documents, philosophy, literature and world art, and returning to the painting.
Research Library
Entrances
Themes, comparative aesthetics, biography, primary sources and iconography, each on its own path.
Three books
A Hundred Years of Wind
One hundred philosophical themes crossing Byun Shi-Ji’s paintings in eight parts.
Read → FŪDOFūdo Begets Form
Colour, line, void, grammar, materiality — five doors, sixteen painters.
Read → 50 ESSAYSReading the Masters
Fifty works of Western art reconsidered through Byun Shi-Ji’s aesthetics.
Read → FŪDO · STUDYFūdo Is Not Landscape (풍토는 풍경이 아니다)
Mobility, Milieu, Body, and Modernity in the Painting of Byun Shi-Ji. The academic edition, in nine arguments.
Read (Korean) →Research essays
The Iconography of the Bent Body
From the bowed nude to the old figures of Jeju.
Read → JAPAN 1940–1957The Japan Years, 1940–1957
Osaka to Tokyo · the Kōfū Prize and the Nitten
Read → SEOUL 1957–1975Seoul, 1957–1975
The man who came back — and he spoke once
Read → KŌFŪKAIByun Shi-Ji and the Kōfūkai
The first Korean accepted, and elected a member
Read → MUSEUMThe Gidang Art Museum
The permanent gallery in Seogwipo, the honorary directorship and the relation between work and museum.
Read → LITERATUREThe Literary Ground
He said that before he wanted to be a painter, he had wanted to be a writer.
Read → VOICEThe Oral History — A Research Guide
Seven sessions and fourteen hours establishing facts about return, canvas, storm, colour and Jeju.
Read →Further
The line does not draw a shape. It sets up the force of endurance. Here we gaze long at the painting and read the meaning beneath it.The Line · The place of interpretation
Research on works, life, oral history, fūdo, literature and world art is connected here.