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Theme 100 · A Hundred Years of Wind · Ⅰ–Ⅷ

A Hundred Years of Wind

100 Essays on the Art of Byun Shi-Ji

100essays
8parts
761sections

ⅠNature & Fūdo

001–015 · 15 essays
  1. 001 The Ontology of WindAn Unseen Force and the Bodies Within It
  2. 002 The Ontology of Dried-Grass ColourDifferences Within a Shared Colour
  3. 003 The Metaphysics of the StormAn Unsettled Order and a Body Seeking Its Place
  4. 004 The Two Faces of the SeaThe Same Water, Different Positions in Life
  5. 005 The Island as UniverseFrom an Image of Isolation to a Place of Relations
  6. 006 The Geometry of Stone WallsA Place Made by Different Stones
  7. 007 The Silence of HallasanThe Line That Keeps the Mountain in View
  8. 008 The Phenomenology of the SunThe Painted Sun and the Light of the Picture
  9. 009 The Character of the PineKindred Forms, Different Lives
  10. 010 The Boundary Called the HorizonThe World Beyond the Edge of Sight
  11. 011 The Four Seasons of JejuPainting a Season, Living Through Seasons
  12. 012 The Season of LightHow Brightness Becomes a Pictorial Relation
  13. 013 Landscape in the RainSurfaces and Distances That Suggest Wetness
  14. 014 The Memory of a Volcanic IslandThe Time of Rock and the Time of a Brush Mark
  15. 015 Fūdo and Painterly StyleMaking One’s Painting Within Given Conditions

ⅡFigure & Being

016–031 · 16 essays
  1. 016 Nostalgia for the ‘Primitive’Looking Anew Without Returning to the Past
  2. 017 The Crouching ManLowering the Body, Finding a Place
  3. 018 The Aesthetics of the BeggarSeeing the Person Without Praising Poverty
  4. 019 The Man Inside the Thatched HouseDwelling Begins at the Threshold
  5. 020 The CoupleLiving Together While Remaining Two
  6. 021 The Time of WaitingTime Within a Still Painting
  7. 022 The Road HomeThe Place One Must Inhabit Again
  8. 023 The Walking FigureThe Philosophy of Walking: Distance Known by the Body
  9. 024 A Drunken NightBetween Intoxication and Creation: Returning to the Work
  10. 025 Listless Posture and ResistanceBefore Reading a Lowered Body as Defeat
  11. 026 Self-Portrait Without a Self-PortraitFrom Face to Landscape: Where Does the Self Appear?
  12. 027 The Light of Old AgeLate Form and Unresolved Tension
  13. 028 The Father’s BackThe Form of Memory and the Distance of Inheritance
  14. 029 The Silent FigureReading a Painting That Makes No Sound
  15. 030 Seated Female FigureClothed Bodies, the Nude and the Distance of Looking
  16. 031 The Architecture of SolitudeReading Aloneness Between House and Body

ⅢAnimals & Life

032–041 · 10 essays
  1. 032 The Ontology of the CrowLooking at the Bird Before Assigning Its Symbol
  2. 033 The Being of the Jeju PonyDifferent Bodies Standing on Shared Ground
  3. 034 The Crow on One LegOne Visible Leg and the Judgement of What Is Unseen
  4. 035 Cattle and GrassThe Feeding Body and the Place That Sustains It
  5. 036 The Form of the CrabAnother Direction Opened by a Small Body
  6. 037 The Butterfly DreamTransformation and the Difference That Remains
  7. 038 A Flock of Birds in the SkyRemaining Distinct Within the Flock
  8. 039 The Eyes of the Jeju PonyStanding Before Another Gaze
  9. 040 The Ontology of a Tuft of GrassA Small Form and the World That Supports It
  10. 041 Companionship between Animals and HumansSustaining One Another in a Shared Place

ⅣTechnique & Medium

042–055 · 14 essays
  1. 042 The Discovery of Yellow-BrownHow Dried-Grass Colour Becomes a Pictorial Language
  2. 043 The Power of the Black LineForce Made through Contour, Interval and Brushwork
  3. 044 The Depths of Near-MonochromeLooking Longer at Differences within Reduced Colour
  4. 045 Learn the LineBetween the Observing Eye and the Revising Hand
  5. 046 The Simplification of FormWhat to Keep, What to Leave Out
  6. 047 What Empty Space SaysWhere the Wind Dwells
  7. 048 The Ontology of FogBetween the Visible and the Invisible
  8. 049 The Language of TextureTouch on Canvas
  9. 050 Thinking through LightSeeing Light, Translating It, Encountering It Again
  10. 051 The Temperature of ColourWarmth Is Not the Same as Reassurance
  11. 052 The Ethics of CompositionWhat Kind of Place Is Given to Each Being
  12. 053 The Aesthetics of the UnfinishedThe Painting That Stops and the Looking That Continues
  13. 054 Repetition and DifferenceWhen Familiar Things Occupy Different Places
  14. 055 Paint and EarthRelated Sensations, Different Materials

ⅤLife & Place

056–069 · 14 essays
  1. 056 Memories of DiasporaFrom Osaka to Jeju: A Life Shaped by More Than One Place
  2. 057 Light and Shadow in TokyoRecognition and the Making of One’s Own Painting
  3. 058 Seoul and the Biwon PaintersA Life and a Practice Built through Returning to the Garden
  4. 059 The Landscape of HomecomingThe Time That Begins after Arrival
  5. 060 The Name SeogwipoWhere a Place-Name, Memory and Painting Meet
  6. 061 The Atelier and the WorldEncountering the World Outside, Painting It Again Inside
  7. 062 Turner and Byun Shi-JiWhere We View the Storm, and the Bodies Within It
  8. 063 Monet’s Light, Byun Shi-Ji’s WindBeyond Separate Senses: How Experience Becomes Painting
  9. 064 Byun Shi-Ji at the SmithsonianLetting a Work Travel Without Erasing Its Place
  10. 065 Gidang Museum of ArtFrom One Painter’s Memory to a Place for Shared Looking
  11. 066 Chusa’s Jeju, Byun Shi-Ji’s JejuBetween Exile and Homecoming
  12. 067 A Painter Who Stays and TravelsLooking Deeply into a Place
  13. 068 The Time of Wild DanceThe Rhythm of Scattered Marks
  14. 069 DescentThe Wisdom of Coming Down

ⅥTime & Memory

070–079 · 10 essays
  1. 070 Going This WayResignation or Acceptance?
  2. 071 Paintings in His Twenties, Paintings in His EightiesChanging Pictures, Continuing Questions
  3. 072 The Time of the Artist’s NotesTime Spent Writing, Reading and Revising
  4. 073 The Time of Works Not Publicly ShownHow Do We Encounter a Painting Not Yet Seen?
  5. 074 The Cycle of the SeasonsReturning Seasons, Time That Does Not Return
  6. 075 Before and After the StormTime between Stillness and Movement
  7. 076 The Light of ChildhoodAt What Scale Does Memory Return?
  8. 077 The CentenaryA Life Concluded, Encounters Continuing
  9. 078 Sehando and JeoldoReading Relationships in Landscapes of Isolation
  10. 079 The Possibility of K-ModernismThe Forms to Examine before the Name

ⅦComparison & Context

080–089 · 10 essays
  1. 080 Terauchi Manjirō and Byun Shi-JiLearning a Resemblance, Learning to See Differently
  2. 081 The Spirit of Literati Painting, the Materiality of OilWhere Related Marks Meet Different Grounds
  3. 082 Expressionism and SauiHow Feeling Becomes Form and Distance
  4. 083 Delacroix and LaoziA Comparison of Colour Relations and Restraint
  5. 084 Gauguin’s Tahiti, Byun Shi-Ji’s JejuWhere Does the Painter of an Island Stand?
  6. 085 Abstract Expressionism and Byun Shi-JiRetaining the Figure, Reading the Surface Differently
  7. 086 École de Paris and École de SeogwipoPainting in Different Places
  8. 087 Matisse’s Colour, Byun Shi-Ji’s LineThe Colour Beside the Line
  9. 088 Reworking East Asian Painting TheoryA Painting Beside Old Words
  10. 089 Visual Art and Art: Seeing and the Life of the MindBeginning with What Is Before Us

ⅧPhilosophy of Art

090–100 · 11 essays
  1. 090 The Poor ArtistWhat Made Painting Possible
  2. 091 The Painter’s HandTaking Up the Brush, Laying It Down
  3. 092 Alcohol and ArtThe Time After Discovery
  4. 093 An Artist’s LegacyOne Work for the Next Person
  5. 094 The Wind That RemainsDifferent Days Before the Same Painting
  6. 095 Art and Non-ArtAfter Giving It a Name
  7. 096 The Ethics of LookingSeeing, Knowing, Looking Again
  8. 097 The Honorary Director’s EyeMaking Room for Another Viewer
  9. 098 The Painter of StormsA Painting Wider Than Its Name
  10. 099 Living in JejuNear the House, Before the Sea
  11. 100 The Road of the WindFrom the Last Essay, Back to the Painting