Çin Resmindeki Boşluk ve Doluluk Düşüncesinin İlkbahar-Yaz-Sonbahar-Kışİlkbahar Filminde Anlam Yaratımı Üzerine: Boşluk Doluluktur
On Creating Meaning of the ‘Empty and Full’ Idea in the ‘Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring’ Film: Empty is Full

Summary/Abstract: Empty and full are two concepts fulfilling each other in the eastern thought and, in particular, in the Chinese painting evolving with that thought. The concept of empty and full means universe, cyclical time, neutralization, conflictlessness and enlightenment as a part of which is endless, in Chinese painting and eastern philosophy. They define intellectual and aesthetical order and space, as well as anthropological and cognitive ones. These spaces created in Chinese painting and poetry reproduce images by becoming empty spaces without image. It is seen that spaces representing the empty has been covering two thirds of the painting. Transiting from a visible world to an invisible one, amalgamating of objects in the painting and their reproducing each other create image-objects that implies cyclical time instead of partial and opponent images. The art of painting which is a practical philosophy in China has created a style aestheticizing an authentic eastern thought which is significant in South Korean director Kim Ki Duk and his filmography. ‘Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring’ is the one of the films in his filmography representing the idea of ‘empty and full’ both contextually and aesthetically. The director influencing from the painting tradition recreates a new conceptual platform by transforming the effects of eastern thought and Chinese painting, which is also felt in South Korean cinema and art, into fictional and aesthetical spaces. The film having a episodic structure as is in the entire eastern narrative open a new door into new filmic images through paintings which are projections of cyclical time. In western philosophy, the object in the emptiness may become defined, meaningful and imaginary. The parables of existence, nonexistence and universe become meaningful through the emptiness. Through created compositions, the idea of emptiness in the eastern thought and Chinese painting means selfdom and echoing of the inner voice, in other words, the silence. Reaching to another resonance among resonances is, reaching to a new image among filmic images.

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