Kim WhanKi
Painter / Korea / 1913~1974
As the first generation of Korean abstract art, he established his own art world based on refined and sublimated formative language and Korean lyricism. His name was widely known not only in Korea but also in Paris and New York, the centers of modern art, and from the late 1930s, he attempted abstract art and led modernism in Korea. In the 1950s, Korean emotions were beautifully formatted with denser and richer expressions using nature as materials such as mountains, rivers, and the moon.