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.

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Selected Works

Kim Yongchul

Peony Blossomed on Gang Hwa Island, 2019

Acrylic on canvas

72.7 × 53 cm

Kim Yongchul

Heart Blossomed with Peony, 2019

Acrylic on canvas

72.7 × 60.6 cm

Kim Yongchul

...With You, 2019

Acrylic on canvas

24.2 × 33.4 cm

Kim Yongchul

Heart Blossomed with Peony, 2019

Acrylic on canvas

60.5 × 53 cm

Kim Yongchul

Heart blossomed with the Peony Blossom, 2013

Acrylic on Canvas

72.7 x 60.6 cm

Kim Yongchul

Bird and Peony Blossom, 2003

Acrylic on Canvas

32.2 x 39.2 cm

Kim Yongchul

The Spring Day of Gang Hwa Island - Peony, 2019

Acrylic on canvas

53 × 45.5 cm

Kim Yongchul

Spring - Birds and Flowers, 2019

Acrylic on canvas

90.9 × 72.7 cm

Kim Yongchul

I and You, 2019

Acrylic on canvas

24.2 × 33.4 cm

Kim Yongchul

Peony and Birds, 2019

Acrylic on canvas

53 × 33.4 cm

Kim Yongchul

Walking into the Forest, 2019

Acrylic on canvas

130 × 160.6 cm

Kim Yongchul

New Day (Rooster), 2013

Acrylic on Canvas

45.5 x 53 cm

Kim Yongchul

Plum Blossom and Birds, 2019

Acrylic on canvas

53 × 45.5 cm

Kim Yongchul

Plum Blossom - Moon, 2019

Acrylic on canvas

53 × 45.5 cm

Kim Yongchul

You and I, 2019

Acrylic on canvas

24.2 × 33.4 cm

Kim Yongchul

Peony and Birds, 2019

Acrylic on canvas

72.7 × 53 cm

Kim Yongchul

Mother - Umma, 2019

Acrylic on canvas

72.7 × 60.6 cm