Min Joung-ki’s works can be classified as landscape paintings in that he treats the nature not as an object subordinated to human figure but as the proper subject of the work of art. But the way he deals with the nature is distinctly different from the landscape painting of the Western art history; the latter featured on the meticulously detailed realistic depiction or dramatized vistas. Min Joung-ki’s landscape paintings are based on the research of I Ching, geomantic theory, folk painting, Zen paintingand the like. He is reconstructing the stylized brush techniques of traditional Oriental paintings in oil painting. Min Joung-ki sometimes put emphasis on the frontality like flatness and verticality; and adopts a kind of transcendental perspective by spreading various scenes rendered from different perspectives. In the case of using transcendental perspective of course, he constructs the scenes according to the traditional method of landscapes. For example, in his work Besides landscapes, the artist shows scrupulous concern about the beauty and harmony of the world of tiny things. His canvas is full of plants and wild flowers like aster of blossoming peony, rose moss, aster and garden zinnia. Among them wild flowers like Facing the works of Min Joung-ki, the audience could get a kind of pleasure like strolling leisurely through the nature and looking calmly into the tiny wild flowers in a remote place.
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