Saeng-kwang Park
Park Saeng-kwang ( Korean 박생광 ) (born August 4, 1904 in Jinju , Gyeongsangnam-do in Korea , † July 18, 1985 in South Korea ) was a South Korean painter.
Live and act
Park Saeng-kwang was born in 1904 to a farming family in Jinju ( 진주시 ) in Gyeongsangnam-do ( 경상남도 ) Province . His family belonged to the local middle class. After attending the Confucian-oriented village school, he attended elementary school and an agricultural school in Jinju. In 1920 he went to Japan to study art, and in 1923 he was accepted at the municipal college for painting in Kyoto , where he presumably worked as an intern in contact with the Japanese painters Takeuchi Seihō ( Japanese 竹 内 栖鳳 ), Murakami Kagaku ( Japanese 村上 華岳 ) and Tsuchida Bakusen ( Japanese 土 田 麦 僊 ) came. In those days, the art scene in Kyoto experimented with the Japanese art style of Nihonga , from which Park was also inspired.
In 1926, after completing his course, Park moved to Tokyo , where he learned from Ochiai Rofu , a representative of Neo-Nihonga, and showed his work at various exhibitions. In 1930 he was awarded in the Western Painting category at an art exhibition in Seoul.
After Korea's liberation from Japanese occupation in 1945, Park went back to South Korea, but life there was full of hardship. So he returned to Tokyo in 1974 and tried to discover the Asian in his painting without succumbing to the restrictions of a current of a country. In 1975 he had five exhibitions, three in Tokyo, one in Osaka and one in Nagoya . With them he wanted to finance his stay in Japan. However, after only moderately selling pictures, he finally returned to South Korea in 1977, but with his type of Japanese-influenced painting he found himself in an outsider position in the Korean art scene, in which everything that was Japanese was tried to be avoided.
Park withdrew in a row and lived in poverty and loneliness and developed his own original style from the beginning of the 80s on the basis of his inclination for Buddhism and shamanism in the last years of his life. Park contracted larynx cancer in 1985 and died suddenly and unexpectedly on July 18, 1985.
Solo exhibitions
- 1975 - Saikodoo, Tokyo, Japan
- 1975 - 2 × Tokiy, 1 × Osake, 1 × Nagoya
- 1978 - Dong-Seo Gallery, Masan, Korea
- 1984 - Fine Art Hall, Seoul, Korea
- 1985 - Le Salon 85, Grand-Palais, Paris, France
- 1986 - Hoam Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Retrospective
- 2001 - Park Saeng Kwang / Lee Wha Ja and the Spirit of Tradition, Gallery Korea, Seoul
- 2004 - Gyeong-Nam Art Museum, Korea
- 2004 - on the 100th anniversary of his birthday, Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea
- 2005 - Jin-Ju MBC, Korea
literature
- Young-taek Park : Saeng-kwang Park . Korean color painting star. In: Koreana . Volume 10, No. 1. The Korea Foundation , 2015, ISSN 1975-0617 , p. 18–21 (German-language edition).
Web links
- Portrait of Park, Saeng-Kwang (1971). National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,accessed November 21, 2017(photographed by Lim Eung-sik).
- 박생광 . IE-Young Contemporary Art Museum,accessed November 21, 2017(Korean).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Park: Saeng-kwang Park . In: Koreana . 2015, p. 19 .
- ↑ a b c Park: Saeng-kwang Park . In: Koreana . 2015, p. 20 .
- ↑ Park: Saeng-kwang Park . In: Koreana . 2015, p. 21 .
- ↑ PARK Saengkwang . Korea Tomorrow , accessed November 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Park Saeng Kwang / Lee Wha Ja and the Spirit of Tradition . Gallery Korea , accessed November 21, 2017 (September 6 - October 5, 2001).
- ^ Park, Saeng-Kwang: 100 year anniversary of birth . Gallery Hyundai , accessed November 21, 2017 (September 8-23, 2004).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Park, Saeng-kwang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South Korean painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jinju , Gyeongsangnam-do |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 1985 |
| Place of death | South Korea |