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People on the Street

Suh Yongsun1991

Korean Art Museum Association

Korean Art Museum Association
Seoul, South Korea

Through the 70’s and 80’s, Seoul has become a metropolitan area because of big architectural changes and massive population growth. The speed of the transportation and hectic life made people into anonymous individuals. Everyone passes by one another without any recoginition.

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  • Title: People on the Street
  • Creator: Suh, Yongsun
  • Creator Lifespan: 1951
  • Creator Nationality: Korean
  • Creator Birth Place: Seoul, Korea
  • Date Created: 1991
  • Physical Dimensions: w1060 x h1850 cm
  • Type: Painting
  • Medium: Acrylic & alluminum foil on Korean paper
  • Critic's Note: Recently, Suh, Yong Sun has been very active in producing paintings. It is possibly because he retired from teaching and now enjoys more freedom. Anyhow, he is expanding his view as an artist, frequently traveling back and forth from the United States, China and Japan. Yet, the objects he is attentive to and the subjects of his focus are the affairs of ordinary people. These scenes are made by a variety of people all over the world. I may say it this way, Suh constantly speaks about his interest with people. Is there a single motive that is done by a human that is not political? The same applies to Suh Yongsun’s works. Suh turns his eyes, or attention, here and there, and develops works of art that relay some political messages to us. Maybe the messages themselves don’t maintain a specific political motivation. However, the people and the cities that he paints, or the scenes of the mixture of people and cities, have the power to catch the viewer’s eyes. They are also full of suggestions, as if the work wants to deliver certain political messages, albeit unclear ones, to us. Suh, Yong Sun, who used to show stark and mechanical urban scenes, and created historical and political scenes related to King Danjong, now turns his eyes to the people overseas.
  • Artist's Education: Seoul National University. Korea. M.F.A., Painting.
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