Hang-Ryul Park
| Park Hangryul | |
|---|---|
| Born |
20 February 1950 Gimcheon, South Korea |
| Known for | Painting, drawing |
| Notable work | The Dawn 새벽, Yearning 기다림, Daydream 낮 꿈, A Stare 응시 |
Hang-Ryul Park ( Korean: 박항률; born 20 February 1950 in Gimcheon, South Korea) is a Korean artist famous for his paintings and poems. He held total of 31 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 100 group exhibitions all around the world including Korea, USA, Japan, Belgium, England and many other countries. He is known for a portrait drawn in profile with a bird and flowers.
He was born in Gimcheon, South Korea on 20 February 1950. He began to paint early in his life. However, his father, an economist, disapproved him becoming an artist and sent him back to his hometown. He attended an agricultural high school where he began to paint again. There, he saw the beauty of nature, such as flowers blooming in orchards, that he was not able to see in Seoul. He captured the country-ness in his drawings. He also met his cousin, who influenced his paintings in the future, there. He spent lots of time with her, from going the mountains and lakes around and reading books together. They became very close and their relationship continued in Seoul when they both moved back to Seoul. When Hang-Ryul came back to Seoul, his father finally allowed him to attend Seoul Arts high school. During high school, his close cousin passed away from spinal lesion. Her death and the memory with her in the country were the sources of inspiration for him and eventually those experiences made who he is now. After the arts high school, he graduated from Seoul National University in 1974. Then, he received his master's degree in Painting in Hongik University in 1982. Since then, he has been teaching at Sejong University as a professor of Painting.
He used to be an Informel artist using minimal forms and geometric abstractions. His style changed after his first poetical works that was released in 1991. He unraveled his poetic sensibility to draw paintings with lyrical touches and concreteness. In the beginning of his career, he drew a boy with a buzz cut. After his trip to Mongolia, he was inspired by Korean traditional motives and drew a girl wearing Hanbok (Korean Traditional Clothing). Since then, he drew many different paintings with a girl wearing Hanbok especially the rainbow colored one.
He was inspired by many different ideas. He was fascinated with Goguryeo murals. He often used imaginary animals from the murals such as fish with wings, bird with human face, crow with three feet living in the sun and Pegasus. His cousin was also his inspiration, not just her but also the memory with her in the country. Because her image went well with butterflies, flowers, fruits and birds, he often placed those in a painting of a girl. He also wanted to put the features of humans meditating, thinking, ruminating the memory together in his paintings.
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