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Hwang Chang-bae - Dance of Brush and Body
These dynamic works are by Hwang Chang-bae, who walked the most experimental path in Korean modern painting.
Hwang learned traditional roots deeply but didn't simply follow them. He boldly deconstructed and recombined tradition, creating completely new visual language.
His specialty: working with attitude of "writing words, moving body, leaving stories" rather than just painting. Look at surface lines—they're dancing movements, body-drawn writing, living lines containing life's rhythm.
Notice text on surfaces. Though seemingly improvised, these carry meaning like literature, diary, monologue. Painting and writing unite creating complete scenes.
See this fan-shaped work. Traditional format but completely modern content. Abstract and representational freely mix, text and images blending inseparably.
Hwang used Korean paper like canvas, freely mixing traditional ink with acrylics and mixed materials. Such radical attempts were highly innovative.
His method was pure spontaneity—capturing moments when emotion and sensation met on surface. Like "discovering painting through process.“
He drew inspiration from folk tales and mask dances. His figures contain folk sentiment, life's humor, human pain and hope—unique "brush sentences.“
He said: "Painting is following life's back view." His works contain daily stories, all human emotions.
Often called "heretic" for radically deconstructing tradition, he actually approached tradition's essence more deeply. Destroyed forms but inherited spirit.
Standing before his works, you don't just view but feel like dancing together inside them.
Hwang learned traditional roots deeply but didn't simply follow them. He boldly deconstructed and recombined tradition, creating completely new visual language.
His specialty: working with attitude of "writing words, moving body, leaving stories" rather than just painting. Look at surface lines—they're dancing movements, body-drawn writing, living lines containing life's rhythm.
Notice text on surfaces. Though seemingly improvised, these carry meaning like literature, diary, monologue. Painting and writing unite creating complete scenes.
See this fan-shaped work. Traditional format but completely modern content. Abstract and representational freely mix, text and images blending inseparably.
Hwang used Korean paper like canvas, freely mixing traditional ink with acrylics and mixed materials. Such radical attempts were highly innovative.
His method was pure spontaneity—capturing moments when emotion and sensation met on surface. Like "discovering painting through process.“
He drew inspiration from folk tales and mask dances. His figures contain folk sentiment, life's humor, human pain and hope—unique "brush sentences.“
He said: "Painting is following life's back view." His works contain daily stories, all human emotions.
Often called "heretic" for radically deconstructing tradition, he actually approached tradition's essence more deeply. Destroyed forms but inherited spirit.
Standing before his works, you don't just view but feel like dancing together inside them.