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* Source: Multilingual Glossary of Korean Art by Korea Arts Management Service
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Lee Yootae
Lee Yootae (1916-1999, pen name Hyeoncho) learned painting from Kim Eunho in 1935 and participated in Husohoe, a group of Kim Eunho’s trainees, in 1936. He moved to Japan in 1938 to study at Kawasaki Ryuich’s art studio at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. He showed his potential by winning the government's general award and the Changdeokgung Palace award at the Joseon Art Exhibition [Joseon misul jeollamhoe] in 1943 and 1944, and then worked as a professor at Ewha Womans University from 1947 to 1979. He played a pivotal role in modern Korean painting Academism by holding various positions, such as a Noteworthy Artist at the 1955 National Art Exhibition, Invited Author, judge, and a member of the National Academy of Arts. He was also a main member of Paek Yang Painting Association from 1957 to 1975. After his studies in Japan, he excelled at female figure paintings by combining the realism of Western paintings, a classical academicist Estern painting technique, and the bright colors together. He was specially known for his female figures described, which were described as idealised representations of the modern era. After independence, he created grand landscape paintings depicting the natural beauty of Korea. By doing so, he demonstrated the value of a traditional approach to landscape painting using real scenery.
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Kim Insoong
Kim Insoong (1911-2001, pen name Jiyeon) created paintings in the Western Academic manner, using precise lines, realistic forms, and harmonious compositions. He was born in Kaesong in 1911 to a merchant family who traded in ginseng and completed Kawabata Art School in Japan in 1932. He then attended Tokyo School of Fine Arts, and his work, A Naked Woman, won the Changdeokgung Palace grand prize at the Joseon Art Exhibition [Joseon misul jeollamhoe] in 1938. He produced figure paintings of celebrities, landscapes, and historical sites in Korea, in later life focusing on the creation of rose-themed works. In 1945, he actively participated in the foundation of the first art department in Korea at Ewha Womans University. Representative of his balanced academic style are paintings such as Art Studio, which depicts an artist sitting on a chair, and was submitted to the sixteenth Joseon Art Exhibition, or The Melody of Spring (1942).
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Living Art Department
The name of a department in universities that teaches living arts, the Living Art Department is the successor of the Department of Drawing and the predecessor of the Department of Design. Living art is a field that encompasses crafts and design, mainly ceramics, textile art, and interior art, in response to fine arts. It can be defined as an aesthetic field related to human living culture. After Ewha Womans University promoted the School of Fine Arts to the College of Fine Arts in 1960, it established the Department of Painting, the Department of Living Art, the Department of Sculpture, and the Department of Embroidery. The College of Education at Sungshin Women’s University installed majors in art education and living art in 1965, and in 1972 a living art major was established in the Department of Fine Arts in its graduate school. Kookmin University began teaching ceramics by establishing the Living Art Department in 1968, and in 1971 it installed the Living Art Department, the predecessor of the Department of Crafts, within the School of Home Economics. When the School of Design was newly established by merging the Department of Costume, the Department of Living Art, the Department of Decorative Arts, and Department of Architecture in 1974, the Living Art Department was separated from the School of Home Economics. When Kookmin University was promoted to a four-year university in 1981, the School of Design was renamed the College of Design, the Department of Living Art was renamed the Department of Craft Arts, and the majors of ceramics and metalwork were separated. In many cases, the Living Art Department was installed not in the College of Fine Arts but in the College of Home Economics, as seen in Sungkyunkwan University and Kookmin University. Yonsei University has had the Department of Living Design in the College of Life Sciences since 1996.
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Department of Art at Hongik University
Established in 1949, the Department of Art at Hongik University consists of one art theory department and eleven practice-based departments, including painting, Oriental painting, printmaking, sculpture, woodworking and furniture design, metal art and design, ceramics and glass, textile art and fashion design, visual communication design, and industrial design. In 1955, it moved from Jongro-gu, Seoul to the current location in Sangsu-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul. The history of the College of Fine Arts can be largely divided into the period of the Department of Fine Arts from 1949 through 1953, the period of the School of Fine Arts from 1954 through 1971, and the period of the College of Fine Arts from 1972 until now. In March 1953, the Department of Fine Arts produced the first six graduates, and in the following year the School of Fine Arts with three departments was established. In December 1971, it was upgraded to a college, which exists up to the present. Several exhibitions organized by its graduates are notable, including the Four Artists Exhibition held in 1956 as the first anti-National Art Exhibition (Daehanminguk misul jeollamhoe or Gukjeon) by the third and fourth classes of graduates and the Union Exhibition of Korean Young Artists held in 1967 by graduates from the 1960s as an effort to realize experimental art.
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College of Arts at Seoul National University
The College of Fine Arts of Seoul National University is located in Sillim-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul. According to the Decree on the Establishment of Seoul National University, the College of Art including the Department of Fine Arts and the Department of Music was founded in August 1946 at Seoul National University. The Department of Fine Arts consisted of sub-departments of Painting I, Painting II, Sculpture, and Design. It was organized by Chang Louis Pal and Lee Soonsuk. Chang Louis Pal had served as head of the Education and Management Bureau in the U.S. Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK) in Korea since December 1945. Lee Soonsuk assumed practical tasks as an advisor to the art section of the USAMGIK from 1946 when the Education and Management Bureau was changed to the Ministry of Culture and Education. In 1946, there were nine faculty members at the Department of Fine Arts in the College of Art: Chang Louis Pal, Kim Yongjun, Gil Jinseop, and Lee Jaehun as professors; Yun Seung-uk and Lee Soonsuk as associate professors; and Kim Whanki, Chang Woosoung, and Lee Byeonghyeon as assistant professors. However, after the incident of Korean students and professors’ protest against the U.S.’s attempt to merge several colleges and universities into a single university, Kim Yongjun, Gil Jinseop, and Kim Whanki resigned. In 1954, the College of Art was reorganized into the College of Fine Arts with three departments of painting, sculpture, and applied art. The Department of Aesthetics, which had temporarily belonged to the College of Fine Arts since 1948, was transferred to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1960. In 1963, according to the relocation plan of the Seoul National University main school building, the College of Fine Arts was moved to the former veterinary department building in Yeongeon-dong, Jongno-gu. In 1972, it was moved to the liberal arts department building in Hagye-dong, Seongbuk-gu, and then in 1976, to the current Gwanak campus. In 1981, the three departments of painting, sculpture, and applied art were reorganized into the five departments of Eastern painting, Western painting, sculpture, crafts, and industrial art. In 1989, the Department of Industrial Art was renamed the Department of Industrial Design, and in 1999, the Department of Crafts and the Department of Industrial Design were merged into the School of Design. Currently, the College of Fine Arts consists of the Department of Oriental Painting, Department of Painting, Department of Sculpture, Department of Craft, Department of Design, and Interdisciplinary Programs.
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