I often refer to pictures from the internet or magazines for the expression of an idealized person in contemporary culture, and try to standardize the face on canvas. At the same time, however, it is to find something unique to say. Therefore, The figures in my work are used as objects to illustrate my own relationship to the world or feelings I have. In my work, the color of a subject is very real, but its background is simple and no spatiality is suggested. Extremely planar surfaces and simple colors or patterns without spatiality are also ways I try to maximize the contrast between objects and background. On the one hand, delicate figures or objects are rendered in striking contrast to the simplified background, but, on the other hand, they are complementary. The images in a series of paintings are realistic and painted with oil, but the composition is unrealistic and the shapes or colors are inevitably opposed to each other. The personal aspects of contemporary people and culture do not need to be painted as a coarse texture, and the images connected to the self finally aim as a realization of the human condition. |
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