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Evergreen Through the Ages: The Dignity of the Noble Scholar, held to mark the 6th anniversary of the reopening of the Go Hui-dong House Museum, presents not only Go Hui-dong's Korean paintings but also the Four Gracious Plants paintings, landscapes and collaborative works of the many calligraphers and painters he associated with in his day. The paintings of the Four Gracious Plants and of landscapes that these artists loved to produce do more than carry on the tradition of literati painting: they reveal an inner discipline, a striving to come one step closer to the ideal life of the noble scholar amid the storms of the world. Go Hui-dong began his career as a member of the Sanbyeok Poetry Society and as secretary of the Calligraphy and Painting Association before establishing himself as a central figure of Korea's modern art world. In his own house, the calligraphers and painters of Korea's modern era gather once more for a meaningful elegant assembly. Take your time with their work and sense the refinement of the noble life they aspired to.