Kim Yong-Ik
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This minimalist artwork features a composition of simple geometric shapes and subtle hues. The dominant visual elements are rectangular frames filled with light blue and dark blue circular shapes, creating a sense of balance and symmetry. The overall color palette is muted, with a focus on shades of blue that evoke a sense of tranquility. The artist's style is characterized by a minimalist approach, emphasizing the interplay of shapes, colors, and negative space to convey a meditative and contemplative mood. This piece likely reflects the artist's exploration of the relationship between form, color, and the viewer's perception. ...
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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.” ...