Oral History Map
Seven sessions and fourteen hours, from 3 December 2004 to 1 April 2005, in which the painter spoke directly about how his paintings were formed and what they meant.
Cut the Canvas
He cut the picture to the size of one figure rather than fill it with what was unnecessary.
Oral-history passage →The Meaning of the Storm
His testimony that the storm gave form both to Jeju weather and to resistance against the surveillance and pressure he endured in Seoul.
Research essay →Dried-Grass Colour
A Jeju colour born from seeing white pass beyond white into yellow under fierce sunlight.
Oral-history passage →Painting on Canvas Cut with Scissors
During the passage toward his Jeju manner, he abandoned stretched canvas and experimented on cloth cut with scissors.
Oral-history passage →Seven Sessions
Birth and Youth
Childhood in Seogwipo, migration to Japan, the Osaka School of Fine Arts, family and youth.
The Tokyo Art World
Study under Terauchi, the highest Kōfūkai prize, Shiseido solo exhibitions and return.
Return and the Korean Art World
The reasons and route of return, the homecoming retrospective, portraits and the Korean art world of the 1950s and 1960s.
Untold Stories of the Seoul Years
University and the art world, government surveillance, intelligence agencies and the storm given form.
The Jeju Years
The move to Jeju, the passage from the Biwon manner to the Jeju manner, and canvas cut with scissors.
Art and Fūdo I
Jeju’s primal landscapes and myths, April 3, art education and ink painting.
Art and Fūdo II
An artistic world of his own, technique and models, yellow and the landscape of the mind.