Sanha(山下: Mountains and streams) were at one time interested in paintings and has done in-depth studies of calligraphy and seal engraving as the preceding (先行) process for a long time. Uniqueness is inherent in paintings his background to study. His paintings are most characterized by untainted point as the paintings that he learned by himself.

They are unfamiliar but classy and fresh and energy spreads over the whole canvas because the existing grammar was thrown away and the artist created composition as he liked. In order to show this energy, Sanha has acquired the power of carving through seal engraving and brush strokes through caligraphy over decades.

Sanha's(산하 윤종득, 윤종득 작가, 화가 윤종득, 山下 尹鍾得, ARTIST YOON JONG DEUK, YOON JONG DEUK, 윤종득 화백)folk way of thinking plays a considerable part in his paintings. They have popular power and charms. They are the result which developed a modern paradigm of folk paintings. Raw color contrasts much more stimulate modern aesthetic senses being strongly intensified.

△Written by Kim, Yangdong (Chair-professor of College of Fine Arts, Keimyung University)