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서양화 | 권한솔

posterior view of a cat watching the front is not just an image of animal without any thought.
The expressive power of thoughtful artist can be seen in the personified cat’s image.
Furthermore, sometimes his profound and plentiful colors or monotonous colors composed
of only white and black which are frequently used in Oriental painting make his painting more
humane and more familiar by adding the weight to the formative beauty.
In Han-Sol Gwon’s painting, dream and hope are harmonized with the future-oriented
brightness and richness as if they are one heart. His painting has the shadow of hope and
richness that give power to the life in which emptiness and loneliness overlap. So his painting
seems to contain love. Like this, secret monologue composed of beautiful love is far from self-
display or insistence. This monologue sublimated into the affluent form, especially the most
beautiful shape of love in the painting.
Therefore the artist spreads out a series of his paintings centering around the concept ‘Richness
and Love’. It is distinct that the process in which an image is made through the arrangement of
lines and dots and also the image symbolizes the illusion of ‘color and dot becoming love’ is
an excellent motif which can create the image of painting more profoundly.
It is thought that he puts emphasis on the extensity and temporality on the basis of purity and
he has been concerned about the ‘fabrication’ and ‘extinction’ of life with the heart of love.
Especially he receives attention because he develops purity on the basis of Korean emotion
and seems to commune with nature.
Meanwhile, unconsciously communing with our traditionality through his innocent inner
world, he has silently painted by softly reflecting his inner world on the white paper. In this
point of view, innocent aesthetic formative sense related with the trace of love for life inherent
in Han-Sol Gwon’s paintings can be said as the communion with the unconscious world.
I think that the illusionary images he creates in this communion are another living things
heading for different world over the new border. It is distinct that this artist who silently fills
the fictional life with clearness and love and also constantly unfolds the beautiful colors by
drawing repeatedly today tastes emotional pleasure through the various colors and shapes.
This artist who has his own remarkable screen organizing power and decoration sensibility
is opening a new formative road for ‘affluence of love’ through his own peculiar imaginative
power.

Jun-Seok Jang (Art Critic, Korean Art Criticism Research Director)

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