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제목 The Harmony of pure Artistica Form and Space 등록일 2005-03-29 00:00:00
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The Harmony of pure Artistica Form and Space

by Lee Ku-yol,Art Critic

Madame lee Hyun made her debut in the korean art world last fall with her solo exhibition at the Seoul Art Center. She studied and worked in Rome for five years until she had returned home last year. Be-fore her homecoming exhibition, she was invited by the seoul Art Center for the center's "Special Art Exhibition of Music and Dance" which was an occasion for her to attract public attention. She presented two of her technically unique works, "The Moon and Piano" and" Nude and Cello."
She had shown in her homecoming exhibition, besides the above two works, a violin player "Paganini," a grand piano and a flower vase "BLUE Yearning, or an Illusion," a scries of works in which a pensive woman seated in a room in moonlit night, a melancholy woman "Signorina," and European landscapes with a horde of sheeps, wild flowers, and towns.


These works are very literary and visionary in line with her works shown at her 1993 exhibition in Rome such as compositions with the moon, seascapes with sea gulls, a woman looking out of the window at the three colored bird flying in the sky, and a woman smoking cigarette in the mirror. This second of her exhibition in Seoul presents more or less the same paintings. The only difference is that the scopc of her subjects became broader to include landscapes of nature and towns, of deers and swans, still lifes with flowers, and women in a musical as well as poetic atmosphere.
These works are delineated in a calm and desolate atmosphere and their artistic quality gives a concrete expression to the fresh and creative world of her art. As mentioned above, her subjects are not extraordinary, but her method of expression and plastic idioms are unique. She clearly simplifies her motifs with distinct black outlines, divides the color planes which are of lucid primary colors with decorative elements, composes her painting according to the theory of pure plastic art, and harmonizes the visual effects into a whole.
The bold and irregular black outlines which define the subject and the planes of primary colors which fill the inside of outlines combine to make her painting attractive and extraordinary.
Lee Hyun brings into relief structurally and simply the thick, lucid, warm or cold primary colors of blue, yellow, red, green and white, and harmonizes the whole with neutral colors of the same category, The concrete shapes of
natural and realistic motifs are well harmonized with the abstract composition of color planes and the outlines.
For instance, in the series (2) of "Blue Room" she delincates a woman with blue hat and dress palying a red violin against the background divided virtically by ultra marine and white colors. The whole color scheme is unrealistic and the art birary contrast of colors is lucid and simple. The figures of motif are brought into relief only by outlines. In the series (3) also she depicts a round table with a tulip vase and a glass, the window and moonlit night with black outlines on the color planes of ultra marine, yellow, red, green and white.
It appears that she has learned this refined sense of expression in Rome, especially from Matiss and Mondrian, the European pioneers of this trend of black outlines and composition of primary color planes. On the other hand, her melancholy expression of women may be, as a Roman critic pointed out, due to the influence of Modigliani. Anyway, she digested her learning and the influence into her method of painting.
Her recent works include a series of "Illusion" which is fantastic, visionary and literary. Series (1) depicts a fleet of white paper boats on the ultra marine sea against the background of the brilliant yellow sun rising from the horizon and bands of red cloud, while series (2) delineates a horde of swans taking flight above the blue sea aling with the brilliantly red sun and bands of yellow cloud, a faily-tale like spectacle. Series (3) is fancy drawing which depicts a group of many black line umbrellas on the brilliantly red plane against the distant background of the blue sky and white clouds. These art the unembellished expression of the innocence of a child's minde and the literary sentimentalism, a visual tale of illusion.
The series of "Illusions of Autumn" also unfolds the artist's psychological panorama just like a fairy-tale. One of them depicts a horde of white and light fray deer among the dark gray naked trees in the tell ow natural environment Ultra marine representing water and the sky is contrasted with red planes symbolizing a field under the mountain. In "Spring in cheju Island" and "Mt. Sorak at Night" in the series of "Impressions of Autumn," the simple
and lucid composition is brought into relief by black outlines; the wood is painted in yellow, the mountain in red and the sea in blue, or red wood, yellow mountain and so forth. All the scenes are depicted by contrasting strong colors which shows her predilection for colors and her freedom th choose them.
In a European landscape "Nice of Night," "Morning in the garden of List," "Salzburg," "The Impression of Amalpi," all the paintings are landscapes composed of color planes like others except the realistic structures of white buildings. In disregard of reality and unreality, figurative and abstract, she combines and harmonizes them in order to create a pure visual beauty. In other words, this represents the artist's original esthetics of painting.

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