Dansaekhwa

単色画（ダンセクファ） / 1970s– / Style / Postwar Abstract Painting

Korean painting in which narrow fields of white, earth, and grey are joined to repeated acts of pressing, pulling, soaking, tearing, and marking; duration and resistance of the support create density beyond the monochrome look.

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At a glance

Visual cues

  • Restricted white, raw, grey, and earth palette
  • Lines, points, folds, or pressure repeated across the field
  • Hemp, hanji, and paint showing absorption and relief
  • Quiet at distance and densely tactile up close

Best used for

  • Holding the time of handwork and material resistance inside a quiet monochrome field
  • Balancing distant calm and close tactility in space, packaging, or print

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Dictionary entry

Type
Keep type sparse and outside the repeated field.
Composition
Repeat one unit across the surface while preserving small differences in pressure, interval, and absorption.
Material
Press, pull, or soak white-earth pigment through hanji or another visibly fibrous support.
Caution
Do not explain it only as white Minimalism. Name its Korean postwar history, artist-specific processes, and actions upon the support.
Further study
Park Seo-bo, Lee Ufan and Ha Chong-hyun / Écriture, Conjunction and methodical repetition / Korean materiality and the limits of the monochrome label

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