Video: Cactus abstractions and landscapes of the Korean Kwang-ho Lee
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-10 02:10
It would seem that what could be more boring than contemplation of their strange landscapes, most of which consist of … cactuses? Most likely nothing if the artist is not Korean Kwang-ho Lee. This guy really knows a lot about his business, because he managed to create a real riot of colors from each picture and accompany it all with some kind of abstract meaning. Just with the help of multi-colored cacti and a couple of unique techniques.
Korean artist Kwang-ho Lee presents a new collection of wonderful landscapes, most of which are cacti. When creating new paintings from this series, he experimented with different techniques, for example, scratching, rubbing the brush against the surface, tapping on the canvas and other unusual things. All this was done for one purpose only - to make from a simple image of a cactus abstraction with meaning.
As a result, we got cacti that look more like animals, as well as something somewhat phallic, or something monumental. Anything is better than just regular cacti. It's boring. And Kwang-ho Lee turned out to be interesting. By the way, now the Korean is holding an exhibition in Seoul, and in addition to paintings of cacti, it presents lonely landscapes, very contrasting with cacti. These landscapes, it would seem, are very mediocre in comparison with many works of other artists in this field, for example, with the lost paradise of Thomas Wrede, however, if you look closely, it becomes clear that what is drawn is not important. The only important thing is how the colors are combined and what meticulous work has been done to achieve such a result.
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