As one of the most significant living Asian artists today, Lee Ufan is the driving force behind the Mono-Ha movement from the late 60s to 70s, and deeply influenced the development of Japanese postwar art. He is also an iconic figure in the Dansaekhwa movement that rose to prominence later in contemporary Korean art scene. Both art movements began on some level as a rebellion against the encroaching western art concepts in East Asia. The artists of these movements looked back at eastern philosophies to make their arguments against western Modernism. A philosophy graduate of the Tokyo Nihon University, Lee Ufan is knowledgeable and has great reasoning skills. When he was young, he chose to express his ideological theories through art, which transcends the limits of language, turning philosophies that developed based on Taoism and Zen teachings into refined art practices. He led East Asian art in a new direction, and not only was he recognized and highly praised by the western world, but also making a lasting impact.

Since 1973, Lee Ufan has turned his attention to painting, using minimal elements and colors to continue his exploration of the connection between the artwork, the environment, and the viewer, concepts that he previously explored with his three-dimensional pieces, creating a minimalist style like no other. Painted in 1979, From Point is a mature work in Lee Ufan eponymous collection, which is considered a key collection in Lee's oeuvre. The artist uses monochromatic blue and simple dots on the blank canvas to create a simple, refined, and highly steady pattern, revealing the flow and depth of time and space. The painting is simple, but contains absolute tension and high spirituality. As the artist said to Hans-Ulrich Obrist at Shanghai in 2017, The point of my work isn't to create an object, the more important thing is the connection between the object and the things around it. The spirit of From Point comes from not only the precise, carefully layered dots, but also the repetitive, rhythmic, and fast-paced feeling created by precise colors and structure. Perhaps the most important part of the painting is the contrast and placement of the tangible and intangible. The markings, edges, and blank spaces all contain deep philosophical ideas, bringing dialogue about space outside the canvas to connect with the environment and the viewers who interact with the painting. These ideas develop into the ultimate philosophy that is in tune with nature and links the homogeneous elements of all creation.

A refined result of Lee Ufan's deep philosophical thoughts, From Point brilliantly displays the artist's ability to transform intangible ideas into tangible visual art. With a high level of focus combining the artist's understanding of philosophy, sound, and physics, and a humble attitude, this piece instantly evokes a sense of peace and a strong response to the abstract and minimalist western Modernism, and proposes an artistic theory based on eastern philosophy. This is only the beginnings, and there is no end.