Kim Yongchul
Kim Yongchul 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 Yongchul
New Day (Rooster), 2013
Acrylic on Canvas
45.5 x 53 cm
Kim Yongchul
Bird and Peony Blossom, 2003
Acrylic on Canvas
32.2 x 39.2 cm
Kim Yongchul
Heart blossomed with the Peony Blossom, 2013
Acrylic on Canvas
72.7 x 60.6 cm