Korean Artist Project with Korean Art Museums

[Ingrid Herskind]

http://www.koreanartistproject.com/eng_main.art?method=main

After listening to Dr. Jennifer Jung-Kim from UCLA, I was interested in exploring Korean Art. At our high school, we have a strong AP Art History program, and our teacher is always looking for more non-Western art to add to her curriculum. I enjoyed learning about the Genre Paintings of Kim Hongdo and Sin Yunbok, and wondered about modern Korean artists.

I found the Korean Artist Project website and was struck by the work portrayed on the site as well as the news stories that analyze Korean art exhibits. One news article on artist Yoo Hyun-mi investigated the impact of the paintings on reality and fantasy. "Instead of digitally manipulating the photos to look like a painting, Yoo works in an analogue way. She repaints the backdrop, moves around the objects and retouches light and shade to make it as real as a painting and shoots pictures again and again. "It would take at least 100 photo shoots to get the results I want."

I will definitely recommend this website to our art history teacher and hope that some of these artists will have shows in the greater LA area.

"Bleeding In Blue--A Man" 2009

[Christine Moguel]

Amazing!  As an Art History Major I am always on the look out for cool art exhibits and art styles defining movements in different cultures.  I will definitly be checking out this website!  It is always  fun to learn about different artists and how their lives have shaped their work.  It would be interesting for me to show my students the works on this website.  I woul dlove to hear their interpretations of the work!

[Sophia Kang]

Wow! This is a great way to teach inverted process with students. I am curious about whether the artist's work is united by a common theme, or what unites the artworks together? When I visited this site, I also stumbled upon a Virtual Reality (VR) exhibition using "contemporary scenery" and "classical works of the east and west." The artist uses a screen that was used in Asian homes back then and inserts digital screens into an eightfold screen. He places landscapes from the east and west side by side to blend the two as well as the past and present. According to the website that Ingrid mentioned, they look seamless when they are placed next to each other. 

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