Iguacu Falls(7) Print

Waterfall Painter _ Kim, Soonok Representative of Korea Institute of Art Promotion & Huam Gallery Owner Her painting by give shape to such a huge flow of the waterfall falling down with reverberating earth and sky in a huge sound of explosion, makes us entangled by the feeling to face the prodigious power of Mother Nature just like being before our very eyes. this is a product of intuition which can interpret the substance of Mother Nature as well as image's clarity which have been built up through the long time of observation. Her sense of beauty which enables the vitality of enormous Mother Nature to be condensed on canvas, and it leads to a product in the true meaning of passion, by surpassing her skills of hands. Her painting is just more than a simple visual impression. By compressing the surging of the magnificent nature on a very small screen in a very convincing way, she makes the border of painting and reality vague. This is a result of the expressiveness of high density as well as reality which is very close to object's substance. Concrete description or straight-forward expression only to the substance, its appeal is so strong. Her painting deludes us a pretense that we are standing in front of that waterfall, and it makes us feel small. Such a sentiment comes from the true acceptance of the strong persuasion of her painting Korean art critic, Shin Hang-seop