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A Foolish Step 4
Myung Jin Song2009
Korean Art Museum Association
Seoul, South Korea
Normally if a parachute is used correctly it can bring a sense of freedom such as to a sky diver. However, the ignorance of the finger person is shown as it is using the parachute for the exact opposite. By dragging the parachute, it adds discomfort and strain as if it has shackles on its feet. The parachute also gets caught on different objects and destroys the green land that it previously created. After destroying the green land, it goes back and fixes whatever it has destroyed. Unfortunately, this seems to be its harsh and futile destiny it has to repeat forever.
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- Title: A Foolish Step 4
- Creator: Song, Myung Jin, 송명진
- Creator Lifespan: 1973
- Creator Nationality: Korean
- Creator Birth Place: Busan, Korea
- Date Created: 2009
- Physical Dimensions: w2590 x h1940 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: Sungkok Art Museum
- Artist's Education: Hongik University. Seoul, Korea. M.F.A., Painting.
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