material photo” alt=”The late writer Kim Chang-yeol. It looks like it was during the last exhibition held at Gallery Hyundai in Seoul from October to November last year. The late writer Kim Chang-yeol. It looks like it was during the last exhibition held at Gallery Hyundai in Seoul from October to November last year. <한겨레> Material photo
Artist Chang-Yeol Kim, an old painter who has enjoyed paintings in Korea with’water droplets’ for nearly half a century, passed away on the afternoon of the 5th. Year 92. Since the early 1970s, the deceased created a unique style in which water droplets with light are drawn on monochrome screens or canvases with characters, and have enjoyed popular popularity for a long time in domestic art galleries. Born in Maengsan, South Pyongan Province, when he was 16 years old, he studied at the Seongbuk Conversation Research Institute run by Lee Quede University, a realist in Vietnam. After that, he entered the Seoul National University College of Art by taking the GED, but he stopped his studies due to the outbreak of the Korean War and devoted himself to post-war work. In 1957, he formed the Association of Contemporary Artists with Seo-Bo Park, In-Doo Ha, and Chang-seop Jung, and participated in the Informel Movement (abstract art centered on color without a shape), which was a cutting-edge trend of the day. He stayed in New York for four years from 1965, majored in printmaking at the Art Studio Trig, and settled in Paris, France after participating in the 7th Avant-garde Festival in 1969 with the help of Nam June Paik, a video master. In particular,’Water Drop Painting’, which was first shown at the Paris exhibition in 1972, has been evaluated as his representative work containing an oriental spirit, and has become a work like a’registered trademark’ that has been creating for nearly 50 years until the end. He has held more than 60 solo exhibitions at major art museums and galleries at home and abroad, including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Jude Pomme, and the National Museum of China. In 1996, he received the Chevalier, the French Culture and Arts Merit Medal, the Republic of Korea Silver Crown Culture Medal in 2013, and the French Culture and Arts Merit Medal of Merit in 2017. In 2016, the Kim Chang-Yeol Museum of Art opened in Hangyeong-myeon, Jeju Island, where he stayed and worked during the Korean War evacuation. The survivors include French wife Martin Geelong, son Kim Si-mong, professor of French and French literature at Korea University, and photographer Kim O-an. Vinso is scheduled to go to Korea University Anam Hospital at 11:50 am on the 7th. By Noh Hyeong-seok, staff reporter