2004 10th Anniversary Exhibition of Artist Park Young-seon

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A memorial exhibition commemorating the 10th anniversary of Park Young-seon (1910-1994), a veteran artist known as a rare nude artist.

The nude body of artist Park Young-sun, who was born in Pyongyang, evokes the urge to touch the woman's milky skin because it is so sweet. The sedentary figures of women and naked women lying on sofas or beds, drawn with lyrical brushstrokes, appear to be young Korean women. However, as art critic Lee Gu-yeol points out, the profile of the face was usually transformed into a beautiful balance between the slender features of a Western woman, a beautiful doll, and a sharp nose, which was the artist's ideal taste.

That is Park Young-sun's typical female portrait. That's why people called him 'a painter with an urban sense.' In addition to nudes, Artist Park also captured the atmosphere of rural life and the local natural environment. The 1970 work ‘Farmer and Family’, which is housed in the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, can be said to be a representative work of this period.

He also painted many delicious still life paintings featuring flowers and fruits, including old palaces in Seoul. He enjoyed still life with a static feel to the extent that he called it nude or still life. Lyricism is appropriately added to the realistic painting style. At the age of 17, Park formally learned oil painting techniques at the painting institute opened in 1925 by Kim Kwan-ho and Kim Chan-young from Pyongyang, known as pioneers of Korean Western painting. While studying abroad at Kawabata Art School in Japan, he interacted with the genius painter Lee In-seong. At the late age of 45, studying at the Académie Grande Chaumière in Paris had a great influence on his painting style. It is a different experience to compare the artistic worlds of Ryu In, who dynamically responded to the times and history, and Park Young-seon, who contemplated statically, across generation gaps.