still life series_PeV Print

Everything in the world is important, so it shines. Although I dreamed of becoming a painter since I was little, the weight of my life pushed me in the direction of an ordinary worker and distanced me from the dream of becoming a painter. However, I could not give up the dream, and I ended up grabbing a painter's brush in 2017. My attention was first drawn to "Donggwoldo", a national treasure, that was a court painting and traditional Korean painting. Unlike the "ink"-oriented literati painting style, its court record-painting style using vivid colors came to me as a contemporary design element. As such, I was interested in "JinChae" style, which utilized various pigments among Korean traditional painting styles. I learned the method again at school. I won the grand prize at the 1st Korea Traditional Painting Contest The 1st Korea Traditional painting contest the grand prize winner (2017) in 2017 and the 39th Korean Art Exhibition Competition The 39th Korean Art Exhibition Competition winner (2020) in 2020. Thankfully, my talent could be recognized even though I was not young, I began to receive commissions for various works. After that, I began my career as a full-time artist. My works follow the traditional Korean "JinChae" technique and also reveal contemporary sensibility. This was because there was a lot of room to reveal my own aesthetics, breaking away from the orthodox teaching method. In the visual aspect, an oriental sentiment and a western sensibility are mixed in the "Still-Life Painting Series", inspired by contemporary works, along with colorful flowers and objects in harmony with the dark blue background. Also, although the work is semantically different from the traditional painting trend, it exudes a strange feeling because the meaning of wishing for life and happiness, which is inherent in oriental paintings, and memento mori of vanitas paintings, which implies humility before death and is developed in the West in the 16th century, coexist in it. Material is used as the main element revealing the subject in works. Silk, stone, and gold can maximize the splendor that reveals the artist's taste: they have the meaning of "something pure..." - the nature of the physical properties. Particularly, "natural mineral pigments" consist of a variety of minerals. Each powder grows under different circumstances because the particles are also colorful depending on the brightness.