Kim Tschang-yeul

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In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.
Kim Tschang-yeul
Hangul
김창열
Hanja
金昌烈
Revised RomanizationGim Chang-yeol
McCune–ReischauerKim Ch'angyŏl

Kim Tschang-yeul (24 December 1929 – 5 January 2021) was a South Korean artist in France known for his abstract paintings of water droplets.[1][2]


Art[]

In 1958, Kim formed the Modern Artists' Association and joined the Art Informel movement, led by Whanki Kim, a pioneering abstract artist of Korea.[2] In 1965, he received a Rockefeller Foundation grant to study at the Art Students League of New York.[3] In 1969, he moved to Paris and lived there for the next 45 years.[citation needed]


He has been compared to Lee Ufan and Nam June Paik and described as a "towering figure of Korean modern art".[4][5] Kim was named a chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1996 and received a silver crown (eungwan) of the Order of Cultural Merit in 2013.[6]

Life[]

Kim was born in Japanese occupied Korea on 24 December 1929 in Maengsan (modern-day North Korea) and was the eldest in a family of six children.[1] After his hometown was taken over by the Soviet Civil Administration following the division of Korea in 1946, he was arrested for holding an anti-communist pamphlet at the age of 17. After being held for 10 days, he fled to Seoul, at the time under the US control.[1][7] In Seoul, he lived in a refugee camp for a year.[1]

Kim studied art at Seoul National University until the communist capture of Seoul during the Korean War in 1950. Following the capture, he escaped to Jeju Island where he worked as a police officer.[1] He returned to Seoul in 1953 when the violence ceased, and worked as an art teacher in High School.[1]


He is the father of French artist Oan Kim.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Russeth, Andrew (15 January 2021). "Kim Tschang-Yeul, 91, Dies; Painted Water Drops Swollen With Meaning". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 15 January 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Durón, Maximilíano (6 January 2021). "Kim Tschang-Yeul, Influential Korean Artist Whose Water Drop Paintings Created New Possibilities for Abstraction, Has Died at 91". ARTnews. Archived from the original on 9 January 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Kim Tschang-Yeul (1929–2021)". Artforum. 6 January 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Arte: è morto Kim Tschang-Yeul, il pittore della goccia d'acqua". La Sicilia (in Italian). Adnkronos. 6 January 2021. Archived from the original on 7 January 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  5. ^ Yau, John (9 November 2019). "A Modern Trompe L'Oeil Painter". Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on 13 January 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  6. ^ "'Water drop' artist Kim Tschang-yeul dies at 91". Yonhap News Agency. 5 January 2021. Archived from the original on 7 January 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  7. ^ Dagen, Philippe (6 January 2021). "Kim Tschang-yeul, le " peintre de la goutte d'eau ", est mort". Le Monde (in French). Archived from the original on 9 January 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2021.

External Links[]

Jeju Kim Tschang-Yeul Museum

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