DAY 323
Mountain landscape
동기창 산수도
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"What does a landscape painted by borrowing old methods say anew?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This is a landscape by Dong Qichang, the Ming-dynasty Chinese painter and theorist. Having learned deeply the methods of the old masters, he then shaped a plain landscape all his own. In this painting I see the harmony of emulation and selfhood. Dong Qichang did not copy the old as it was. After learning enough, he unfolded it again with his own hand. Learning begins in imitation, but stopping there leaves only mimicry. Only when what one has learned is digested into one's own does emulation become creation.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Emulate, but do not stop there; digest it into your own and unfold it anew.
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