Sample Gallery/Dealer Art Work - X-Power Gallery
Guan Zi Zai Series 1/Bodhisattva Guan Zi Zai
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| Artist: |
Lee,Sun-Don |
| Created On: |
2007 |
| Image Medium: |
Oil on Canvas |
| Image Dimensions: |
91×72.5 |
| Art work Description: |
| This painting is part of the Guan Zi Zai Series. The defining characteristic of this series is the image of a sitting bodhisattva in the name of Guan Zi Zai written in Chinese calligraphy, 觀自在. More significantly, the whole painting is created mainly in one color, the pure white, a style referred to as “white-on-white” (white paint on white canvas).
From the Buddhist point of view, the employment of white-on white is to illustrate the essentials of Bodhisattva Guan Zi Zai. Guan Zi Zai literally means “to reflect upon the self-existent.” The “self-existent” refers to our innate Buddhahood—which means that each one of us possesses the potential to be enlightened and become a Buddha. We are however not yet enlightened because our innate nature is still covered with all sorts of greed, anger, and ignorance, which delude our perception of the true reality. If we can clear away those coverings, then the original purity of our innate nature, the Buddhahood, will be uncovered—and this is the so-called “enlightenment.” The use of white paint on white canvas is to highlight the original purity of the self-existent innate nature.
From an artist point of view, the white-on-white style can perfectly capture the main concept preached by the Bodhisattva Guan Zi Zai, as revealed in the Heart Sutra—that is, all beings encompass both existence and non-existence. To simultaneously present existence and non-existence within one painting is truly an artistic challenge. The white-on-white style, however, allows for concurrently addressing emptiness and existence. Approached from the color point of view, the images in white seem to disappear into the white canvas, thus delivering the aura of emptiness; from pictorial viewpoint, certain images do emerge from the background, thus manifesting the true existence.
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