Kim Yong-Ik
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This abstract artwork features a predominantly black background with white and brown brushstrokes creating a dynamic, expressive composition. The overall design has a sense of movement and energy, with the brushwork expressing a raw, gestural quality. Various gray circular shapes are scattered across the canvas, adding a playful element to the piece. The style and technique employed suggest a focus on spontaneous, expressive mark-making, characteristic of abstract expressionist painting. This work may reflect the artist's intention to convey a personal, emotional response to the creative process itself. ...
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Kim Yong-Ik
B.1947Influenced by Dansaekhwa, the Korean monochrome painting, and the Japanese Mono-ha movement, Kim Yong-Ik established his career in the late 1970s with his Plane Object paintings, a series of airbrush paintings on unstretched canvases that relate to these traditions. In the 1980s, having completed a thesis on Marcel Duchamp, Kim moved from the ‘Plane Object’ series to more abstract and geometric languages. During the 1980s and 1990s, he developed increasingly experimental work by using scraps and thus including forces greater than his own imprint, such as stains, hair or dust. By the early 1990s, Kim develops his “polka dot” series consisting of paintings depicting simple and serialized arrangements of circles. In 1999, Kim helped establish one of Korea’s leading exhibition spaces known as “art space pool.” ...