YUN HYONG-KEUN (Korean, 1928-2007)

Yun Hyong-keun is also a painter of note in the dansaekhwa movement. Influenced by the Korean abstract paintings in the late 1950s, he developed a style of bold brushstrokes rendered vertically. From the 1970s his paintings show only vertical color bands, while the colors are gradually reduced to greenish brown and brown, as exemplified by the Umber-Blue Series. Yun Hyong-keun prefers painting on raw canvas to that treated with gesso, which helps produce a gradient effect of colors. The hazing gradation effect on hemp or cotton creates in the modern pictorial image a sense of ink wash in traditional Chinese painting.