2009. 9. 16. 19:46ㆍ대학
Applicant name: Hong, Kil Dong
Applying for : Fall, 2000
When I face the empty canvas, I come up with various thoughts. What exactly is drawing? What will I draw and what exactly is it that I want to draw? All of the sudden, I am in front of the canvas and about to draw something. Then, I realize that I am concentrating on my work in the space that everything is freely expressed and permitted. I believe that the most significant element of drawing is self-observation. Enjoying myself, questioning to others and myself, and questioning why people are anguished about what to create are all what I think of drawing.
Furthermore, I believe that a piece of work has to possess reality in order to provide a meaningful message to people and there must be constant communications and conflicts with surroundings besides recognizing what the problem is. I have been interested in painting since childhood, but to become a painter was merely one of my dreams that I had. In the meantime, I had a chance to read a biography of Salvador Dali when I was in high school, and was inspired through his life as a painter. Impressions that I had from his paintings and himself were definitely fabulous and attractive enough to motivate me to become an artist.
Since then, I have started studying art formerly and went to the College of Fine Art at xxx University. However, studying art at college was not the same as what I expected. I was being away from the painting as the school emphasized on traditional realistic art. When I came back to school after three years of army experience in 19xx, I started questioning myself to find out what I was before. It is true that I had difficulties with painting due to various things that any of pre-artist may perceive at my age such as identity, originality and tradition. It was in my senior year of college when I became free from these pressures; it was the moment that I was able to feel liveliness that I have neglected before.
Meaningless lines and shapes that I drew while I was doing something else and simple sketches on my notebook became significant elements of formulating my work of drawing. Meanwhile, I submitted my work that I had not expected at all to ‘xxx Art Contest’, one of the three major art exhibitions in Korea was able to gain confidence as I was awarded a special prize.
After I became a graduate student in 19xx, I was able to exhibit my work as I was awarded from various contests, but the continuing dissatisfaction of my paintings only made me tense. Along with criticism of being simply doings, I was not satisfied with my inconsistent point of view to express my thoughts through paintings.
As I have realized that I need to broaden myself in a different environment that I have never experienced, I decided to study abroad, and my decision of studying abroad came from the expectation of experiencing a different form. However, I am not afraid of the fact that this expectation turns into distress and hardship. I do not believe that painting is always pure and genuine because from now, I would like to perceive anguish of changes in painting rather than pureness and peaceful illusions in it. The theme of my work, called ‘Studying abroad’, is to observe the world and myself from a different point of view.
Recently, I am interested in duplicated elements in my work. It seems to be ambiguous to express duplicated elements, but I am confident of its existence. There are relationships such as things that are visible and things that are not visible, external appearance and essence, outside and inside, apparentness and potentiality, concreteness and abstraction, and consciousness and unconsciousness. I believe that when such contrast relationships are breaking apart, it is possible to approach a different form. The contrast between concreteness and abstraction is not an issue because anything can be a model for the painting. The end.
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