This study analyzes the structural, narrative, and sensory functions of linear patterns in the process of generating pictorial images through the appropriation of literary texts as formative materials. Focusing on the transformation of language-based ...
This study analyzes the structural, narrative, and sensory functions of linear patterns in the process of generating pictorial images through the appropriation of literary texts as formative materials. Focusing on the transformation of language-based narratives into visual forms, the research explores how the convergence of visual art and literary language can be reinterpreted and expanded within contemporary painting. Rather than treating literary texts as illustrative references or secondary motifs, this study examines their role as narrative foundations and formative devices within pictorial composition.
In the artist’s practice, literary texts are not regarded as fixed or complete narratives but function as points of departure for reinterpretation and variation. Emotional atmospheres, symbols, and imagistic scenes embedded in poems and fairy tales created by others are translated into visual form through the painterly language of line. In this process, the line operates not merely as a formal or descriptive element, but as a structural language that records emotional flow, relational movement, and narrative progression.
The artist’s paintings are grounded in a process of form generation that emerges from the repetition and layering of lines originating in unconscious drawing. Thin, continuous lines accumulate across the surface, forming distinctive linear patterns. These patterns acquire a unique formative quality through the combination of line-based thinking derived from junfa (皴法) in East Asian painting and the material properties of Western painting practices. The accumulative nature of lines rooted in junfa reflects traditional approaches to conveying vitality and natural rhythm, while their integration with contemporary materials and illustrative expression expands their function into a new pictorial language.
This study emphasizes that literary texts within painting are not simply reproduced or descriptively represented, but undergo a process of formative transformation that results in new sensory structures. Emotions, symbols, and narrative fragments from literary texts interact with linear patterns to construct fantastical and symbolic pictorial spaces. This process can be understood as a reorganization of literary narrative into visual rhythm and spatial composition, demonstrating the potential for literature and painting to share emotional and narrative dimensions while maintaining distinct medial characteristics. Furthermore, this research highlights the active role of audience interpretation in the process of meaning-making. As literary texts are transformed into images through the artist’s reinterpretation, an initial shift in meaning occurs, followed by a secondary transformation through the viewer’s personal experiences, emotions, and memories. Within this dual interpretive structure, the artwork functions not as a closed system delivering a fixed meaning, but as an open field in which meaning is continuously generated through interaction. Linear patterns serve as visual signs that guide the viewer’s gaze and emotional movement, shaping pathways of visual exploration across the pictorial surface.
Focusing on the artist’s painting practice developed since 2021, this study examines the relationship between literary texts and images, as well as the visualization of emotion and narrative. It argues that painting can operate as an interpretive system that reorganizes the emotional and symbolic structures of language, rather than serving as a mere visual translation of literary texts. By redefining linear patterns not as decorative repetition or formal devices but as a core formative language connecting text and image, artist and viewer, emotion and structure, this study contributes to the discourse on interdisciplinary art practices and reconsiders the narrative and emotional potential of line as a fundamental element in contemporary painting.