Video: Splashing waves in the paintings of the Korean artist Kim Cogan (Kim Cogan)
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
“You roll blue waves and shine with proud beauty” - everyone remembers these Pushkin lines, addressed to the “free element”. To capture the charm of sea waves, to clothe visual beauty in words is a skill subject to literary geniuses. Capturing the white crests of waves on canvas is a challenge that requires equal power of talent. Paintings by contemporary Korean artist Kim Cogan - an excellent example of marine painting.
Kim Kogan has been working on a charming series of marine paintings since 2010, it was named “Sea Change”, because the works turned out to be very dynamic: sea waves “roll in” with incredible speed, replacing each other, and the viewer sees only flying splashes. The paintings are painted in oil, the author admits that he tried to comprehend the secret of the impermanence of this element, to catch its hypnotic rhythms.
Kogan's creative searches were crowned with the fact that he decided to change the traditional view of the painting, placing the image not on the usual square canvas, but on an oval panel. According to the artist, the cylindrical shape resembles waves that roll freely on the sea. Marine studies are alien to the angularity, which, one way or another, arises in the paintings of other masters.
Creating a series of these amazing paintings, Kim Kogan not only watched the sea for hours, but also worked with numerous photographs, because in the pictures you can catch the slightest movement of the water, the moment of the greatest stress that the human eye can miss.
The works of Kim Kogan are very close to the portraits of the sea element in the paintings of Ren Ortner, with which we have already introduced our readers. Of course, the work of these artists is a bright page of modern marine painting.
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