More than paint: Asian culture through Realism

“Rice Planting” by Filipino Fernando Amorsolo is a representative image of workers in the field. / Courtesy of National Museum of Contemporary Art

``He who cannot draw on 3,000 years is living hand-to-mouth,’’ Goethe once said, highlighting the necessity of understanding one’s history. Three thousand years might be tough for some to swallow, but an exhibition in downtown Seoul is offering a 100-year slice of Asian art to enlighten minds to the perspectives of the time.