• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.305-314
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• 2016

이 연구에서는 드립페인팅(drip painting)으로 유명한 잭슨 폴록(Jackson Pollock)의 작품과 이와 흡사한 형식을 가진 한국 앵포르멜 작업 (Korean Informel art)들에 나타난 프랙탈 차원 (fractal dimension)에 대한 분석을 시도하였다. 구체적으로 폴록과 한국 작가들의 프랙탈 차원이 다를 것이라는 가설을 통계적으로 검정하기 위해 30개의 폴록 작품과 45개의 한국 작가들의 작품을 사용하였다. 그 결과 폴록에 비해 한국 작가들의 프랙탈 차원이 통계적으로 더 높은 것으로 나타났다. 이는 폴록에 비해 한국 작가들의 작품의 패턴이 (세밀한 척도에서) 보다 평면적이라 해석될 수도 있을 것이다.

• 헤리티지:역사와 과학
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• 제52권2호
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• pp.172-195
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• 2019

고암 이응노(1904~1989)의 회화 전개에서 1960년대의 파리 시절은 미술가로서 가장 전위적인 방식으로 매체의 실험 및 혁신을 이룬 시기로 평가받는다. 그리고 파리로 건너가기 직전에 개최된 이응노의 ${\ll}$도불${\gg}$전(1958. 3)은 이응노가 앵포르멜 미술을 처음 수용할 때의 회화 양상을 확인할 수 있다는 점에서 주목받아왔다. 이를 주목한 이응노 관련 연구는 1958년의 작품들을 앵포르멜과 추상표현주의의 영향으로 해석하는 관점과 이응노가 문인화로 처음 화업을 시작했다는 점에 초점을 맞추어 문인화의 사의(寫意) 정신의 발현으로 보는 관점으로 크게 구분할 수 있다. 본고는 앵포르멜과 추상표현주의를 통칭할 수 있는 '추상회화'에 대한 이응노의 인식을 확인하는 것을 목표로 하였다. 이를 해결하기 위해서는 당시 이응노의 회화론을 되짚어보는 것이 필요하기에 이응노가 회화를 처음 학습했던 해강 김규진 문하와 일본 유학 시절의 회화론을 먼저 살펴보았다. 이응노는 매너리즘에 빠진 문인화풍에서 벗어나기 위해 자연을 깊이 관조하는 것을 회화 제작의 첫 번째 원칙으로 삼았다. 그의 이러한 사생론은 1950년대까지 지속되었다. 그리고 그는 '추상(抽象)'을 서양 미술사조의 '추상회화'라는 고유 개념이 아니라 일본 유학 시절 이후 강화된 사생론에 따라 '(자연에서) 형상을 추출하다'라는 사전적 의미로 이해했을 가능성이 크다. 이응노 본인도 추상회화의 근간에는 자연의 형태가 있다고 밝힌 바가 있다. 즉 추상적인 회화와 '추상회화'는 다른 개념이기에 이를 구분하여 당시 이응노의 회화를 분석할 필요가 있다. 마지막으로 이응노의 1950년대 추상회화를 문인화의 사의(寫意) 정신이 발현된 것으로 해석하는 관점에 의문을 제기하였다. 전통 문인화론을 현대의 이응노에게 직접 연결하는 것은 오히려 이응노 회화의 개성을 가리게 하고 전통서화와 현대회화의 구분을 모호하게 만들 수 있다. 또한 이응노는 회화 제작에서 사의를 강조하긴 했지만 이는 대명제로서의 언사(言辭)였을 가능성이 높다. 왜냐하면 정작 1950년대에 제작한 작품들은 <자화상>(1956)처럼 이응노가 스스로 '북화(북종화)'라고 규정했던 회화 양식이 주를 이루기 때문이다. 이러한 양상은 문인화의 대명제로서의 '사의'와 '사의적 화법'을 구분해서 바라볼 필요가 있다는 점의 근거가 된다. 따라서 당시 그의 회화는 사의의 발현, 전통 문인화의 계승이라는 측면으로 보기보다 사의적 화법을 구사한 이응노식 추상회화라는 관점에서 새로운 해석을 필요로 한다.

• 미술이론과 현장
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• 제16호
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• pp.7-40
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• 2013

Historian Eric J. Hobsbawm once said "the task that historians have is to analyze the meanings of the past within the context of society and to track the changes and implementation." It would not be too far of a stretch to apply Hobsbawm's quote to art historian since art history, although quite specific, is still history. In addition, Hobsbaum also asserted that, "a mold called the past continuously forms the present or at least thought to be." It is my recognition that the major westernization of the last century took place under the Japanese colonization which served as the channel to usher in western art; however, the current 20thcentury Korean art history fails to recognize that the mold of the past, namely western art in this case, has formed the modern art of the present. Based on this recognition, attention was given to what lacked in the analysis of the current 20th-century Korean art history in terms of "Informel" which was identified as the turning point towards "modern art" in the Korean art history as well as the following "experimental art." My belief is that the art history of Korea has to be reassessed from, a socio-cultural perspective as well as adopting multi-level and diachronic understanding. However, the existing Korean art, especially the one between the end of 1950s to the 1970s was based on the perspective of "severance"; thus, raising the needs for the starting point of a new perspective. It is my conviction that meta perspective on writing is most essential in order to lay a solid basis for the Korean art scene to have a productive discussion. I feel the utmost necessity to reinterpret the typified history analysis and criticism which stemmed from the trauma under the Japanese colonization. The most urgent task is to avoid academic closeness and to share the research. Painting is an individual expression of the artist, but the act of expression is not free from the cultural and societal influence to which the artist belongs.

• 미술이론과 현장
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• 제16호
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• pp.107-137
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• 2013

This paper examines a number of Korean artists-Whanki Kim, Po Kim, Byungki Kim, Lim Choong-Sup, Min Byung-Ok and etc-working in New York in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on their motivations to head for the U.S. and their life and activity in the newly-emerged city of international art. The thesis was conceived based upon the fact that New York has been one of the major venues for Korean artists in which to live, study, travel and stay after the Korean War. Moreover, the United States, since 1945, has had a tremendous influence upon Korea politically, socially, economically, and, above all, culturally. This study is divided into three major sections. The first one attends to the reasons that these artists moved out of Korea while including in this discussion, the long-standing yearning of the Korean intelligentsia to experience more modernized cultures, and American postwar cultural policies that stimulated them to envision life beyond their national parameters, in a country heavily entrenched in Cold War ideology. The second part examines these artists' pursuit of abstraction in New York where it was already losing its avant-garde status as opposed to the style's cutting edge cache in Korea. While their turn to abstraction was outdated from New York's critical perspective, it was seen to be de rigueur for Koreans that had developed through phases from Art Informel in the 1960s to Dansaekhwa (monochromatic paintings) in the 1970s. The third part focuses on the artists' struggle while caught between a dualistic framework such as Korea/U.S, East/West, center/margin, traditional/modern, and abstraction/figuration. Despite such dichotomic frames, they identified abstract art as the epitome of pure, absolute art, which revealed their beliefs inherited from western modernism during the colonial period before 1910-1945. In fact, their reality as immigrants in America put them in a diasporic space where they oscillated between the fixed, essentialist Korean identity and the floating, transforming identity as international artists in New York or Korean-American artists. Thus their abstract and semi-abstract art reflect the in-between identity from the diasporic space while demonstrating their yearning for a land of political freedom, intellectual fulfillment and the continuity of modern art's legacy imposed upon them over the course of Korea's tumultuous history in the twentieth century and making the artists as precursor of transnational, transcultural art of the global age in the twenty-first century.

• 미술이론과 현장
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• 제7호
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• pp.7-36
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• 2009

This paper intends to examine the significance of the "Minjoong Misool(People's art)" of the 1980s emerged in Korea in its social, cultural, and art historical context. This paper also aims to provide an analysis of the meaning and form of the individual artist's works, which have been overlooked under the dominant discourse that has emphasized their political role as a collective group. In particular, this paper scrutinizes the work of "Critical Realists" by examining the way in which they perceived Korean society in the early 1980s and visualized their experiences of the period. The figurative art newly emerged in the early 1980s challenged the formalist Modernism, which was adopted into Korea and translated into monochrome paintings and the work of the conversative academicism of the 1970s. The figurative art encouraged a social communication and moreover it intended to criticize the conflicts in the political, economical, and social domains in Korea. The targets of its critique include the unavoidable results of the unprecedented development of economy, various social phenomena of the post-industrial society, and the growth of the commercialized kitsch culture. Along with Shin, Hak-chul's work that incorporates collage technique since the 1980s, the work of some members of "Reality and Utterance" and "Im- sul-nyun" exemplify their critical interests in disclosing the false dream of wealth and happiness by both referring to and drawing on the utopian fantasy manipulated and distributed by mass media and commercial advertisements. This paper pays particular attention to Nouvelle Figuration emerged in France and Europe during the 1960s, which is comparable to the new figurative art emerged in Korea during the 1980s. Nouvelle Figuration criticized the autonomy in art isolated itself from political and social reality after WWII, in particular the indifference of Informel and abstract art as well as American abstract art. Moreover it became rather politicized around May of 1968. Given that French Nouvelle Figuration was introduced in Korea in 1982 and made a significant contribution to the formation of figurative art in Korea, it should be noted that the new figurative art emerged in the 1980s in Korea cannot be categorized merely in relation to People's Art. This paper intends to critically redress the notion that People's art was formed in the particular political, economical, and cultural context of Korea independent of the contemporary artistic practices outside Korea. It will provide a critical examination and analysis of the content and form of the new figurative art, from which People's Art was germinated, in the global context.