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서양화 | 권한솔

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 afflu-
ent 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 unusu-
al 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 met-
aphor 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.

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