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Duck's Cross
Myung Jin Song2008
Korean Art Museum Association
Seoul, South Korea
In painting, there is a large piece of green paper and many pieces are peeled off in the shape of a Post-it. The Post-it type images started as flat 2D objects. It wasn’t until they were peeled off the canvas and then stuck onto the back of the duck that they became an illusion of image having a 3D nature. The blindfolded duck is painted on the same paper that the pieces are peeled from. It shows us that a 2D object can become a 3D object on the same canvas depending on the situation or its roll and vice versa.
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- Title: Duck's Cross
- Creator: Song, Myung Jin, 송명진
- Creator Lifespan: 1973
- Creator Nationality: Korean
- Creator Birth Place: Busan, Korea
- Date Created: 2008
- Physical Dimensions: w3636 x h2273 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Acrylic on canvas
- Critic's Note: A Narrative of Paintings within a Painting How Are Different Levels of Paintings’ Subject Matters Combined? ....Briefly, though addressing ‘flatness’ as an inherent characteristic of painting governed by Modernism, Myungjin Song suggested, as a sort of solution to the condition of painting, a reinforcement or intervention of a monotone surface through ambiguous forms that stir up the viewer’s thoughts instead of employing a high level of abstraction or an exploration into materiality. In , there are surfaces that seem to be turned over toward the backside on the entirely green canvas. Here, despite figurative depictions, her pictures were still conceptually conscious of flatness as an identity of painting. While flatness of painting played a primary role, figurative depiction served as a secondary motif and contributed to the entire composition by encompassing both levels of intellect and sensation. When looking at her recent paintings, we find that Song takes a bit of a different path from her earlier methodology in relation to meta-narrative and anecdotal images. Seemingly, Song’s work can look too obvious, but in actuality she tries quite a complicated attempt of associating these two different levels and constructs her own artistry….
- Collection: Private collection
- Artist's Education: Hongik University. Seoul, Korea. M.F.A., Painting.
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