Painting of Thousandhands Avalokitesvara

"Painting of Thousand-hands Avalokitesvara" is a media art based on the theme of "Painting of Thousand-hands Avalokitesvara (千手觀音圖)," which paintings painted under the theme of Avalokitesvara (千手觀音) during or before Goryeo Dynasty. We reproduces the original Buddhist culture, which accounts for a large portion of Korea's culture archetype, in the three dimensional space. Avalokitesvara (千手觀音) appears in lotus flower on the center of artwork. Avalokitesvara is a Buddhist saint who saves people with a thousand-hands and a thousand eyes. Thousand-hands (千手) literally symbolize a thousand hands, and metaphorically symbolize the ability and its appearance is very diverse. Also in the artwork, Avalokitesvara has 11 faces, indicating that through Avalokitesvara's various appearances, they can save all of the people in various situations. On both sides of the Avalokitesvara, there are Four Devas (四天王), the four heavenly guardians of Buddhism. The Dragon King and the Sudhana (善財童子) appear After the appearance of the Four Devas. All of them gathered to listen to the teaching of the Avalokitesvara. Thousand-hands begin to unfold in the halo (光背) of the Avalokitesvara. After all the elements of the artwork such as the waves in the background and the Litany Buddha (化佛) appear, 42 hands which contained people's wishes with Buddhism things (持物) appear accordingly. Every time a 42-hands appears, the color of the thousand-hands in the halo changes and the thousand-hands take various hand movements (手印).