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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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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)