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Fishing the Flat
Myung Jin Song2007
Korean Art Museum Association
Seoul, South Korea
On the stream bank, a finger person is fishing. This landscape is an imitation of real nature created by the finger person. The finger person knows that the stream is fake as he is the creator. He knows that he can’t really catch a fish. Even the fishing hole that he has his line in is fake showing the white flat canvas underneath. However, he seems to be satisfied by just pretending in the world that he has created.
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- Title: Fishing the Flat
- Creator: Song, Myung Jin, 송명진
- Creator Lifespan: 1973
- Creator Nationality: Korean
- Creator Birth Place: Busan, Korea
- Date Created: 2007
- Physical Dimensions: w910 x h727 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….
- Artist's Education: Hongik University. Seoul, Korea. M.F.A., Painting.
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