[권동철의 화가탐방]A simple and clear graver ‘mark’ unique to woodcut[Thoughts on the woodcut of Jo Hyang Sook,Yim Young Kil Art Critic②,화가 조향숙,조향숙 작가,Yim Young Kil Art Critic②]
도판 02.1 ∼ 02.3. 정관자득 ( 靜觀自得 ), 50×60 ㎝ (each), wood cut, 2009. 사진제공 = 임영길 . A simple and clear graver ‘mark’ unique to woodcut It is known that Korean contemporary printmaking began around 1950. In Korea, since the printing technology was developed from an early era, it was able to smoothly accept the contemporary printmaking that has been cut off since the modern printmaking. Korean contemporary printmaking developed in several branches, such as the one that was adopted by artists such as Choi Young-rim, who studied Japanese creative printmaking in the early days, and in the later period, the one that had autogenous modernist artists co-working together with the artists who studied in the West. Those who also carried out paintings tended to perceive printmaking as a mean of an expressive technique, rather than a multiple original. In the late 1970s, there were ‘Woodcut of Korean people’, influenced by ‘new woodcut movement in China’, which tried to communicate with the pu...