Western painting was indirectly introduced to Korea from Japan in the turbulent days of Japanese colonial rule of Korea. The Western painting was distorted on account of Japanese peculiar taste and the then Korean painters accepted it passively. This ...
Western painting was indirectly introduced to Korea from Japan in the turbulent days of Japanese colonial rule of Korea. The Western painting was distorted on account of Japanese peculiar taste and the then Korean painters accepted it passively. This distortion was detrimental to the forming of Korean painting and the developing Korean modern art.
Yoon Sungho(1904-1981) knew difficulty in adopting Western painting. And he experienced the tension between two sensibilities through his experiment of plastic form. After all Yoon resolved the crisis by a new state of sensibility. In doing so he recovered the original basic quality of Korean painting.