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Seoul Art: Where Past and Present Meet |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Betty Rogers Rubenstein |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1993 |
| Size: 1,157 Words, 7,138 Characters |
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In Seoul, South Korea, a high-tech city of thirteen million people, sculpture and painting rank in importance just after the family car. Even a casual visitor to Seoul will notice the current flowering of the arts. New museums flourish, new buildings sport elegant status, and new hotels decorate their lobbies and rooms with original contemporary art. Fifty-three art galleries took part in the Seoul Art Fair in the late summer of 1992. Most of them were from Seoul, and the majority of the artists were young--born in the early fifties. It is as if the long years of Japanese occupation and the destruction wrought by two major wars served as a dam that a new generation has opened, allowing a creative river to burst forth and flood the country with a largess of art.
Grateful for their inde...
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...ly dominated the Seoul Art Fair in 1992. Little of the violence and anger that shows up in comparable exhibitions by young artists in New York appeared in the Korean art on view in Seoul.
The central thought of the t'aegukki, the Korean flag is balance and harmony within the constant movement of infinity. Despite the amazing pace of modernization, Korean art still reflects this concept.
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