HagJu
Lee
“The
emotion of the different colors”
There are some people that can smell a flower and tell that spring is coming. Yet there are other people that can hear the birds and tell that spring is soon near. But I can tell that spring is in the air by the colors that I see. I rely on my sense of sight more so than I do with my sense of smell or sound because the colors that I see around myself allow me to recall past memories. My work allows me to convey my memories through the use of colors. Through my work I hope to express my emotions through the colors. The colors that I use have a variety of emotions attached to them, and those colors can spark a slight change in ones spectrum of emotions. Because people have a variety of memories attached through colors, a particular color can reflect different emotions attached to a memory in that individual's eyes. The emotion that is created within an individual is subjective and characteristic of that individual. However a color can also spark the same memory and emotion in different people, however I refuse to create the same emotions that lie within the colors. Therefore I feel that the colors I use are attached to only my memories, but as I work more with colors I feel as though it creates a new experience, a new memory, and a new emotion.
DAN
CHUNG painting is an old Buddhist art based on the Yin Yang
"Theory of Five". According to this theory, the World
are made from 5 elements, which are wood, fire, earth, gold and water.
These 5 elements each have a color attached to them, as well as a direction
in the universe. They are: Wood = Green = East, Fire = Red = South, Earth
= Yellow = Centre, Gold = White = West, and black = White = NorthTherefore,
when painting the temple woodwork, only these 5 colors are used, and no
others. In that way, Dan Chung painting serves two purposes, one being
the purely symbolic, and the other other purpose is simply protection
of the structure of the wood.
unique pattern of 'Dan Chung color' - symbolizing the harmony with the
past
TANCHEONG is a term for decorating wooden buildings by
coloring, but is also a general term for making stone buildings magnificent
or decoraing statues or objects of craftwork by painting or coloring.
It again uses the five cardinal colors(blue, red, yellow, white, black),
which is related to the five elements of the Chinese cosmogony (metal,
wood, water, fire, and earth).