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<Artist’s Notes : Nonsensible>

What prejudice will block mankind from which are all the accidents and incidents to understand the identity of modern art as a
happiness relevant to personalities and have already been Korean and an intelligent who studies east
Right after being born, we are forced to be out of the mankind’s range of imagination since Asian art.
educated and influenced by family, school and long ago.
society, and usually to live the life required by I cannot get rid of the thoughts that such What is the art spirit of east Asia?
the community out of our own individual tastes. materials and consciousness having been In the east Asian learning, the art spirit regards
Thus, we are tamed in the social and artificial accumulated by mankind shall get rid of the nature as the principle. The art spirit
frame of rules away from our nature and mankind themselves in the solitary world. generally accepts the emotional expression
forced to think of the social and individual I think that the problems of the modern arts and of human but thinks that it shall go toward
consciousness formed in such frame as valuable modern society are all influencing each other. the harmonization with the world through
knowledge. That is, such problems have been caused by moderation.
The consciousness coming out of such frame ignorance of spiritual culture. In some sense, it is good to express the desire
must give birth to prejudice, which creates the and emotion that vary individually as they
viewpoint of value and self-pride that cause The Modern Arts Difficult for Me to are because they are honest nature and make
your eyes to be disturbed in seeing the true Understand people enjoy a variety of aesthetic tastes. On
sides of every object. It is prejudice that causes Having converted largely from the God the other hand, however, such expression
too much individual greed and social anxiety. centered consciousness to human focused can be forcible or violent. In the order of the
As the history indicates, the arbitrary prejudice consciousness since Renaissance, the modern world, one existence cannot throw away the
of the ruling class going toward the power art has gotten out of the traditional and life of another existence for only one existence
suppresses the life and freedom of human. Like rational foundation to make the trend of freely among the existences that are individually
this, the prejudice of the artists greedy for false expressing the individual tastes and desires as different. Therefore, there is also a thought that
reputation does not only mess up the aesthetic the characteristics of modern people. what is scattered as an art expression only for
sense of people but also make the identity of Modernism was born by valuing the new and individual taste cannot be considered as an art.
and social expectation on the art unclear. fresh expression of individual emotion, which
was denied to give birth to post-modernism My View of Art
The Problems of the Modern Society Caused that has progressed to the trend that officially My job is a calligrapher, a traditional artist
by Prejudice regards anything as an art piece and anyone as who may be regarded as a too straight person
In the modern society full of individualism, an artist if any concept is given to such thing by because calligraphy itself needs many years
people are looking for their happiness only on such person. even only for learning characters, looking
the materials and reputations for their selfish Any of daily items, even a toilet, can become through the old letters and copying the old
interests and desires. It may have been quite an art piece in such trend. In addition, AI, books of letter, and it is not at all the kind of art
long since the people lost their time to look the masterpiece of the modern society, has that is apart from paper, brush and ink.
back at the others and their inner world. dominated every industrial area and now is Based on my own thoughts that everything
Since the modern began, individualism and coming even into art market to take over. In this should be done for human, nevertheless, I
materialism have been persistently growing for situation, it is also a fact that the copyright issue would like to suggest and emphasize on an idea
the past 100 years. It is also true that they have of AI based piece is controversial. that both figure and spirit should be equally
been contributing to such amazing progress of Now, even such ‘eschatology of art’ as ‘There valued in the art. You can easily fall into
the science and economy. On the other hand, is neither person nor thing to be classified as emptiness only with a plausible figure and you
however, they also have caused such a variety an artist or art’ is positively accepted in some cannot easily expect the social echo only with
of huge problems entirely in the human society, group. To me, therefore, it has become hard the excellency of your own thoughts.

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