Yong-Jin

The type of artwork that attracts me shows scenes of mother Earth from the bottom of the deep blue ocean floor to the silent and breathtaking galaxy and everything in between the two layers. In the East Asian culture, the Syngman Rhee Era pertained artworks of the bird and flower painting genre where simple drawings of simple life forms were used as the major subject (Yong-Jin, Kim 1¬¬¬¬). At the University Of Michigan Museum Of Art, Kim Yong-Jin’s Fourteen Fruit and Flower Sketches features fourteen intricate fruits and flowers, part of the “bird and flower painting” genre of Korean art that struck me with great fascination (besides my love for the nature art) because of how the painting mirrors the simplicity and complexity of life. In detail, the artwork served more than just a simple evaluation of life, but it also served to relieve those who needed peace. …show more content…
Yong-Jin recreates them in monochrome colors (black and white), brown, with the exception of the fruit and flower petals themselves, which Yong-Jin inks with their respective color on Earth (Yong-Chin Kim 2). With the simplistic way each cluster of plants the artiste displays, a person may glance over and see the simple plants and nothing more. They do not see the complexity of details that our artisan has seen in person. They do not see the complexity of the living product. Kim Yong-Jin’s art also had a purpose to relieve troubled people from their stress to just view the natural beauty of the world, one without violence and