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			Colorful Korean Painting - From Harmony to Purification

Sangyong Shim
(Professor, Seoul National University; Director, Seoul National University Museum of Art)


1. Why Colorful Korean Painting?

Life and Art of Eight Different Artists in Eight Different Colors

The eight artists from the exhibition Colorful Korean Painting have passed through the same period of history. Except for Bongreal Lee, who was born in 1937, it's not too much to say the rest of the artists were born right around the national liberation of Korea. "Liberation: freeing oneself from imprisonment, oppression, or restraint." What other term can be more beautiful or more aesthetic than this? In addition to the fact that all of those artists have laid the foundation for the history of painting in Korea, which was liberated in 1945, there is surely a fair amount of contemporaries. Similarly, they become not representatives of history, but history becomes a representative of them.
Eight artists' journeys of life and attitudes toward art certainly have their personal colors and shades. Although the distinction between abstract painting and representational painting isn't largely meaningful, everyone except Sun-cheol Kwun is an abstract artist in their form. However, Sun-cheol Kwun's paintings are seemingly abstract enough. In addition, even if they all fall into the same category of abstract painting, each aesthetic orientation is as different as the gap between the representational and the abstract, so the harmony is truly wonderful.
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