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The World of An Mal Gum's Painting Works

Creation, Light and Life Energy that have been found in Delight

- Beny Suh (Fine art critic)

Name of painter, An Mal-Gum is very specific. Within her name, it feels as if there exist
her pure mental image and art. Her works are cleanness and greenness themselves as
her name means.

Within her first impression, she is also seen as a painter that has been doing her
works full of delight overwhelmed with joy in her own area by her quiet and undefiled
character.

After having hardened her own foundation that depicts Gogh’s works being fascinated
by spirit and world of Gogh influenced by the Dutch painter., her works, at first
appearance, make us hallucinated that they all resemble those of Gogh, but, when
looking minutely into them, a vestige of effort is seen that An Mal-Gum tries to have her
own vision.

Even in contemporary world of art that abstract paintings are generalized, An Mal-
Gum is a painter who makes her own new formative attempt among the reality where
traditional form of expression is faced away while maintaining facts seen by eyes in
themselves.

An Mal-Gum makes religious paintings that are creative and marvelous, apart from
other painters, and lure to a certain world of transcendence as her works that have been
worked through intransigent sweat drops shutting herself up in her workroom.

She makes paintings about experience and curiosity in the self-portrait with the
materials of her own world that she saw in her childhood., and her preference of series
of self-portrait mainly comes from her personal taste, but, she has rather influenced by
her view of world and life.

In the world of works of An Mal-Gum, spiritual world can be seen that intends to
express creation. light and bioenergy which have been found in the delight. And in
addition, she shows interest in those things that people do no pay attention to and also
shows particular sight that tries to invest permanence of their existence.

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