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Snow Island
Lizzy Yoo1988
Korean Art Museum Association
Seoul, South Korea
In "Snowy Island", I want to express a landscape of snow. I painted a woden large oval shape and anodized the cast aluminum. The oval shape form symbolizes a place under a short pine tree on a hill where I visited in my childhood and where peace and tranquility dwelled.
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- Title: Snow Island
- Creator: Yoo, Lizzy
- Creator Lifespan: 1945
- Creator Nationality: Korean
- Creator Birth Place: Uljin, Korea
- Date Created: 1988
- Physical Dimensions: w20 x h440 x d220 cm
- Type: Metal Arts
- Medium: Aluminum, silver(92.5), wood, paint
- Critic's Note: (the preface omitted) Yoo is indelibly Korean. While assimilated to some Western customs, she’s pretty traditional in her views of cosmos, society and personal relationships. Perhaps she reasoned that her personal understanding of the world could generate an authentically Korean expression. Some of my favorite works by Yoo emerged from personal expression: "Evening Stroll," 1986; "Looking at a Hill," 1987; "Wind Journey," 1990. (omitted) In this and other sculptures like it, I think Yoo has produced truly Korean art. Yoo’s essentially Korean way of seeing the world lies at the very heart of these works. Starting with "Incense Burner" from 1978-79, Yoo investigated a third path. She was drawn to ceremonial objects involved in funerals and other memorial observances of death.(omitted) In time, her interest in ritual objects led to the ensemble she made for her father’s funeral, which I think is a very important artwork. (omitted) Here is the legacy of functionalism, but with a distinctly Korean flavor. Here is a meditation on Modernist style, and how far it should (and should not) extend into the non-Western world. Here is spirituality given form and substance.
- Artist's Education: 1976 Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. M.F.A.1968 Seoul National University. Korea. B.F.A., Applied Art & M.F.A.
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