Painter Hong Chun-Gi is a genius-like talent with a great fondness for art. She graduated from Hannam University Graduate School of Fine Arts and used to lecture at Hannam University Painting Department. She served as an invited artist and judge of the Korea Contemporary Art Association. She is also a member of numerous associations like Korea Art Association, Daejeon Art Association, Simhyang, Lovers, Daejeon Korean Painting, Daejeon International Association, Chaewon, Korea Creative Beauty Association (Daejeon-Wuhan), Korean-Chinese Calligraphy Exchange Member (Daejeon-Nanjing), and Daeseo Hwamyung Home Appliances.
Painter Hong has also earned a lot of achievements in her career. In 2019 and 2021, she was awarded Artist Prize and Invitational Artist Prize in 2010, 2012, and 2013 at the Korea Art Awards. She also has held a total of 3 solo exhibitions and 7 online solo exhibitions of her artworks, and more than 70 art fair booth exhibitions, international exchange exhibitions, and external group exhibitions.
One of the outstanding artworks of her career is 'The Road to Eternity [영원으로 가는 길]'. The work of 'The Road to Eternity' in the artwork is expressed in line with the attributes of the peonies, which symbolize the aspiration for wealth and glory in folk tales, and the inner feelings of human life.
By arranging the Mobius strip as an interpretation through life (the road to eternity), it expressed that the direction of human life is a reality inevitably leading to eternity. To make this reality more glorified, the result is created by sublimating and developing each other's feelings and communicating, and through this result, human life is grafted with the truth that can only be a reality that leads to eternity.
In the end, human life pursues the longing for the glory of wealth (the peonies), which is a modern reinterpreting of traditional painting by expressing the continuum principle of life that turns and turns as the outside and inside become one like a Mobius strip. Here, the human expression is embodied by lotus leaves and lotus flowers in human form, symbolizing the virtue of an upright person - an attribute of 'Yeonhwado' in folk paintings.
The painting expresses that the direction of human life can lead to the continuity of a purified human society only when it accepts the value of the 'Yeonhwado' attributes (nobleness, integrity, and purity), and this is the way to true eternity. The peony in the expression of the five colors contains the meaning of coexistence including the principle of the five elements of all things in the universe and expresses the meaning of influence without knowing it by staying in the vicinity of human life.
