The painter Park Seo-Bo (b. 1931 in Yecheon, Gyeonsang) is among the most important protagonists of Dansaekhwa (monochrome painting) in South Korea. In the 1970s, this group of artists formulated—in dialog with the traditions of Asian philosophy and calligraphy—their response to the abstract painting of Europe and North America. Park Seo-Bo’s art is “based on the idea of totality (under the aspects of time, space, and material),” with which he expounds his relationship to the world. He has been creating the monochrome paintings he calls Écritures since 1967: With a steady, often circular movement, he “writes” with the pencil into the still wet layer of paint. The traces/lines cross each other, at times canceling each other out, while new lines emerge. They ultimately bear witness to the uninterrupted, highly concentrated painting process. For Park Seo-Bo, this quiet, energetic art is a “tool for spiritual development.”