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Winter
Yi, Hee Choung2001
Korean Art Museum Association
Seoul, South Korea
Yi expressed desolate, but somewhat hopeful, winter scenes with gray skies, a red sun, thin trees, rocks and wandering scholars. He depicted white and gray as the main colors.
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Details
- Title: Winter
- Creator: Yi, Hee Choung
- Creator Lifespan: 1956
- Creator Nationality: Korean
- Creator Birth Place: Seoul, Korea
- Date Created: 2001
- Physical Dimensions: w730 x h535 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Critic's Note: There is a kind of secret rhetoric in the atmosphere that makes Hee-Choung Yi's work possible. He reinterprets traditional symbols and elaborately fills the canvas. There are familiar images like the mountains, fields, birds and butterflies; but sometimes they are seen as unfamiliar. The familiarity is our memories of hometown hidden within our mind, and the unfamiliarity is the vague shadow of our hometown that we longer visit. Hee-Choung Yi connects the familiarity and unfamiliarity on his canvas through a unique composition. Each color point gathers into a form and becomes the background. He links each form with the color section as if to embroider and connect the other parts of the canvas. The true nature of his formative languages lies in the connections. Hee-Choung Yi's reinterpretation of Korean symbols proceeds to explore existence itself, which is the origin of symbols. He does not simply define existence but inquires into the meaning of it. His skillful brushwork becomes a story connecting the abyss to the past and the present.
- Collection: Private collection
- Artist's Education: Hongik University. Seoul, Korea. M.F.A., Painting. Kunst Academy. Duesseldorf, Germany. Maester Schueller.
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