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Monochromaticization of Symbols
and Allegories as Perception

Critique, Kim Jai-kwan(Ph.D. Fine Art)

1. Prologue

A Western-style painter Kim Youn-hee started her career as a painter right af-
ter completing her master‘s degree at Hongik University’s Graduate School of
Art. It is known that she received the most guidance from two professors, Kim
Tae-ho and Lee Doo-sik, who were her advisors at the time, and it is presumed
that she received different artistic sensibilities from those two professors who
had completely different stylistic characteristics. In particular, as can be seen
in her master’s thesis (Advisor: Kim Tae-ho) titled, A Study on Spatial Expres-
sion of the ‘Accept’ Series in Modern Flowing Painting, she agonized to create
her own new formative method through the implicit screen composition of
physicality dismantled with free intention. In addition, she seems to have been
considerably influenced by Antoni Tàpies while working on her abstract art.

As Cézanne did, Tàpies originally studied law, but gave up and entered the
path of an artist. He started as a surrealist painter in the early days, but he
participated in‘Art Informel movement’and entered the abstract art move-
ment in earnest. In order to effectively express the rich texture, he used the
so-called Impasto technique, which paints thickly by mixing dry matter such
as soil, stone, and sand, and he also used scribbles such as Graffiti as signs.
Kim Youn-hee seems to have been fascinated by the artist’s spirit of looking
at the innovative use of Tàpies’ mixed media and the exploration of abundant
textures and time and materials. In addition, it can be seen that she was par-
ticularly interested in Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and Gerhard Richter’s
‘Color-Field Painting’ abstract paintings since she officially started working
on it.

The characteristics of their works are large monochrome works, and I think
they reinterpreted the medium of painting and expanded the area based on the
relationships between shapes and backgrounds and the method of developing
their aesthetics which translates color-field which looks like a vague square
shape as subtle harmony of colors. Most of these artists’ works are composed
of accidental effects due to overlapping physicality and media. As this feature
is applied to the work, the paint pushes and pulls in the canvas, and this grav-
ity causes the trajectory of density and speed on the screen, forming a natu-
ral form of (blank) space on the canvas surface, which can be seen that Kim
Youn-hee evolved this feature into her own original color technique.

Nietzsche said, “Art is a means of enjoying the joy that is filled forever while