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2022 한국미술진흥원 특별기획전

Resonance of Clear Soul and

Innocent Formative Beauty

Han-Sol Gwon’s painting delivers the plentiful sensitivity and delicacy. His work is to mark
dots one by one on the canvas by using a magic pen or to create a form with the soft lines and
affluent colors. The artists drawing pictures by marking dots on the canvas generally use oil
painting or India ink. And there are some artists who do this kind of work in order to resolve
the psychological sickness or stress.
However, Han-Sol Gwon’s painting is very different from this kind of painting. His painting
has a lucid and clear character even though it begins with soft lines and gentle colors. His
painting is outstandingly clear and vivid enough for us to feel the resonance of clear soul. His
painting is so far from the obscurity of colors and the touch of lines drawn uncertainly in the
mood of sorrow and melancholy.
In other words, his painting is not random touches he imprints without thought in order to
soothe the sickness in his heart but a beautiful shape unfolded with expressive power after he
sets up the composition and the shape he intends to express. Maybe because of these reasons,
his paintings are so calm, clear and bright that they give the appreciators aesthetic curiosity
about picture and great communion about the formativeness which is composed of compositive
colors and shapes along with simplicity.
‘Waiting’, one of his representative paintings is a painting of simple pointillism and it shows
unusual neatness. This painting describes a cat which is looking at the distant sky. This cat
sits alone in the nature in which the fragrance of flowers and grass seems to come forth softly
and subside on the earth along the spring breeze. Even thought the shape is a cat, his excellent
expressiveness is displayed in its figure which seems to be a metaphor for woman.
This painting provokes appreciators’ interest and concern by bringing out a feminine cat as
a metaphor for dignified woman waiting for man. This painting composed of many kinds of
flowers around a cat and appropriate image of leaves seems to frankly display inner mind of
the artist.
In this reason, the emotion and the artistic value of this artist seem to be very special, bright
and plentiful. And his painting is a precocious and innocent picture containing delicacy in it
and makes our attention stay on the picture because of its modernity and formative beauty
implying our emotion.
In the poor current situation of Korean art which can not help following the globalization
trend increasingly, his painting in which we can feel Korean emotion gives us consolation. The

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