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Lee Yil
Lee Yil (; 1932–1997) was a Korean art critic and art historian. Writing predominately in Korean, but also occasionally French, the critic penned numerous texts on modern and contemporary Korean art. Lee wrote extensively on Dansaekhwa in his efforts to define contemporary Korean art within a larger global context. His citation of foreign artists, scholars, and art critics demonstrates his vested interest in bringing modern and contemporary Korean art into dialogue with the international art world, and determining the place of 20th century Korean within this broader sphere. This larger project included proposing historical periods for modern and contemporary Korean art, and coining theoretical terms like "reduction" and "expansion," which Lee would utilize in his writing for many decades. Lee's work as a critic began in Paris writing for the Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo while studying at the Sorbonne. Lee returned to Korea to teach at Hongik University in 1966, and contribut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Tschang-yeul
Kim Tschang-yeul (24 December 19295 January 2021) was a South Korean artist in France known for his abstract paintings of water droplets. Art In 1958, Kim formed the Modern Artists' Association and joined the Art Informel movement, led by Whanki Kim, a pioneering abstract artist of Korea. In 1965, he received a Rockefeller Foundation grant to study at the Art Students League of New York. In 1969, he moved to Paris and lived there for the next 45 years. He has been compared to Lee Ufan and Nam June Paik and described as a "towering figure of Korean modern art". Kim was named a chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1996 and received a silver crown (eungwan) of the Order of Cultural Merit in 2013. Life Kim was born in Japanese occupied Korea on 24 December 1929 in Maengsan (modern-day North Korea) and was the eldest in a family of six children. After his hometown was taken over by the Soviet Civil Administration following the division of Korea in 1946, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 Births
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Museum Of Modern And Contemporary Art
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) is a contemporary art museum with four branches in Gwacheon, Deoksugung, Seoul and Cheongju. The museum was first established in 1969 as the only national art museum in the country accommodating modern and contemporary art of Korea and international art of different time periods. History and architectural style Gwacheon The museum was initially established in Gyeongbokgung on October 20, 1969, but was moved to Deoksugung in 1973. It was moved to its current location in 1986. Founded to contribute to the development of Korean contemporary art by systematically conserving and exhibiting artworks created since 1910, the museum's area of 73,360 m2 spreads over three floors, and has an outdoor sculpture park occupying 33,000 m2. The motif of the architecture is that of a traditional Korean fortress and beacon mound, and the building has a unique spiral- formed interior where Dadaigseon, one of the most famous video artwo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redza Piyadasa
Redza Piyadasa was a Malaysian artist, art critic and art historian. Piyadasa was born in 1939 in Kuantan, the capital of Pahang, in a family of Sinhalese origin. Initially he followed a study at the Malaysia Teacher's College in Brinsford Lodge to become a teacher. Afterwards, he followed an art study at the Hornsey College of Art in Crouch End, London, on the basis of a scholarship of the Malaysian government. Here he obtained his degree in 1967. Consequently, he returned to Malaysia, where he started to work as a teacher at the School for Art and Design, which shortly before was founded as a part of the Universiti Teknologi MARA.Khoo, Eddin (13 May 2007biography The Star Online Piyadasa dedicated his life to art, in the sense of focusing on art theory, as well as performing himself. As an artist he produced visual artwork, like paintings, installations and collages. By means of his publications in Malaysian as well as in English, he importantly filled up a vacuum of the sixti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Ufan
Lee Ufan (Korean: 이우환, Hanja: 李禹煥, born 1936 in Haman County, in South Kyongsang province in Korea) is a Korean minimalist painter and sculptor artist and academic, honored by the government of Japan for having "contributed to the development of contemporary art in Japan."Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs "2009 Autumn Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals," p. 9./ref> The art of this artist, who has long been based in Japan, is rooted in an Eastern appreciation of the nature of materials and also in modern European phenomenology. The origin of Mono-ha may be found in Lee's article "Sonzai to mu wo koete Sekine Nobuo ron (Beyond Being and Nothingness – A Thesis on Sekine Nobuo." Once this initial impetus given, Mono-ha congealed with the participation of the students of the sculptor Yoshishige Saitō, who was teaching at Tama University of Art at the time. One evidence may be found in the book a, so, toki(場 相 時, place phase time) (Spring, 1970). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chung Chang-sup
Chung Chang-sup ( ko, 정창섭; 1927 – 2011) was a Korean abstract painter and first-generation member of the post-war art movement, ''Dansaekhwa'' (Monochrome Painting). At the start of his career he worked with oil paint as his main medium, but later on he explored Korean materials such as '' hanji'' (Korean mulberry paper) and ink paints''.'' Since he held close relations to government elite, he was able to have success as an oil painter hired as a part of the state-sponsored National Painting Project. His lifelong explorations with ''hanji'' pulp, called ''tak,'' are more well-known and became his trademark. Chung's unique approach to Korean materials was inspired by Eastern philosophies regarding harmony and nature. As one of the leading innovators of ''Dansaekwa,'' Chung's works were, and continue to be exhibited internationally in group and solo shows. Biography Chung was born in 1927 in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. He graduated from the Depar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perspective (graphical)
Linear or point-projection perspective (from la, perspicere 'to see through') is one of two types of 3D projection, graphical projection perspective in the graphic arts; the other is parallel projection. Linear perspective is an approximate representation, generally on a flat surface, of an image as it is seen by the eye. Perspective drawing is useful for representing a three-dimensional scene in a two-dimensional medium, like paper. The most characteristic features of linear perspective are that objects appear smaller as their distance from the observer increases, and that they are subject to ''foreshortening'', meaning that an object's dimensions along the line of sight appear shorter than its dimensions across the line of sight. All objects will recede to points in the distance, usually along the horizon line, but also above and below the horizon line depending on the view used. Italian Renaissance painters and architects including Masaccio, Paolo Uccello, Piero della Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modernism
Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, and social organization which reflected the newly emerging industrial society, industrial world, including features such as urbanization, architecture, new technologies, and war. Artists attempted to depart from traditional forms of art, which they considered outdated or obsolete. The poet Ezra Pound's 1934 injunction to "Make it New" was the touchstone of the movement's approach. Modernist innovations included abstract art, the stream-of-consciousness novel, montage (filmmaking), montage cinema, atonal and twelve-tone music, divisionist painting and modern architecture. Modernism explicitly rejected the ideology of Realism (arts), realism and made use of the works of the past by the employment of reprise, incorpor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minjung Art
Minjung art (Korean: 민중미술, romanization: ''minjung misul'') emerged during the 1980s in South Korea as part of the Minjung movement in the wake of the Gwangju Uprising (1980). Minjung artists utilized a wide array of forms, including oil painting, woodblock print, collage, photomontage, banner painting, and readymade, in order to respond to the political and social climate of the time. A number of artworks were produced for and used in protests, and thus led artists to use reproducible mediums like print. Artist collectives like Reality and Utterance and the Association of Gwangju Freedom Artists played a large role in minjung art, exemplifying the tendency of minjung art to deemphasize individual authorship and maintain a publically-minded ethos. While minjung art began to wane in the early 1990s, "post-minjung" artists took up the mantle to revisit and draw on minjung art's legacy. A number of shows both at home and abroad have sought to present and historicize minjung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reality And Utterance
Reality and Utterance ( ko, 현실과 발언, translit=Hyeonsil Gwa Bareon) was a ''minjung'' (people’s) is an art group active from 1979 to 1989.Pol = Bol. Sŏul-si: Hanʻguk Munhwa Yesul Wiwŏnhoe Insa Misul Konggan, 2008. The group membership consisted of art critics and artists who wanted to make art that not only reflected the everyday joys and political struggles of Korean society, but also actively transformed socio-political realities.Lee, Sohl. "Sohl Lee 'Realism for Democracy in the Global Cold War: South Korea's Minjung Art.'" From Vietnam to Berlin, 2018. Members of this group made art that was a reaction against and in opposition to the state-supported modern art, namely ''dansaekhwa'' and international abstraction. As the name of this group suggests they wanted to "speak truth with art" about the state of Korean society despite the harsh censorship of the government.Yoon, So-Yeon. "Reality and Utterance Ages Gracefully and Still Resonates." ''Korea JoongAng Daily''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yun Hyong-keun
Yun Hyong-keun (Korean: 윤형근, 12 April 1928 – 28 December 2007) was a South Korean artist. After graduating from the Hongik University, Yun became associated with the Dansaekhwa movement. Yun is well known for the smearing effects of burnt umber and ultramarine blue paints on raw canvas or linen, which reveals a Korean sensibility of reflection and meditation. Early life Yun Hyong-keun was born in Cheongwon-gun (present day Cheongju), North Chungcheong Province, near the city of Daejeon in the central-western part of what is today the Republic of Korea. Thankfully, even at the height of Japanese colonial rule, Yun had the chance to receive art instruction under direction of Oh Dong-myeong and Ahn Seung-gak at Cheongju Commercial School, from which he graduated in 1945. Influenced by Ahn, Yun enrolled in a short-term course at Cheongju Teachers' College to study drawing for half a year in 1946. Subsequently, in the following year, although his family was against his studyin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
