Kim Yong-Chul

Kim Yong-Chul is a Korean painter who conveys the importance in preserving traditional values and cultural heritage. In 1970s (a period of national transformation from poverty to wealth) Kim worked on political projects to critique the depressing Korean society of the time using newspaper and television as media. From 1984 Kim returns to painting and employs Korean pictorial tradition capturing the scenery of vivid, fresh life which represents a departure from the previous political and gloomy perspective. He paints hearts to peonies, to flowers and birds, which are the symbols with distinct meanings in Korean traditional paintings. The use of acrylic, pastel, and glitter, heart motifs gives promising future and brighter prospect enlivened his attitude that work itself becomes a healing.
Selected Works

Kim Yong-Chul
Peony Blossomed on Gang Hwa Island, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
72.7 × 53 cm

Kim Yong-Chul
Walking into the Forest, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
130 × 160.6 cm

Kim Yong-Chul
The Spring Day of Gang Hwa Island -
Peony, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
53 × 45.5 cm

Kim Yong-Chul
Heart Blossomed with Peony, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
72.7 × 60.6 cm

Kim Yong-Chul
Spring - Birds and Flowers, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
90.9 × 72.7 cm

Kim Yong-Chul
Peony and Birds, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
72.7 × 53 cm

Kim Yong-Chul
...With You, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
24.2 × 33.4 cm

Kim Yong-Chul
I and You, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
24.2 × 33.4 cm

Kim Yong-Chul
You and I, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
24.2 × 33.4 cm

Kim Yong-Chul
Heart Blossomed with Peony, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
60.5 × 53 cm

Kim Yong-Chul
Bird and Peony Blossom, 2003
Acrylic on canvas
32.2 x 39.2 cm