백남준 미술의 비평은 무엇을 위한 것인가?: 현대미술 비평교육의 인성 교육적 해석 연구

Abstract

This study studied Nam June Paik’s artwork: <The More, The Better> and <Fractical Turtleship> as a example of understanding difficult contemporary art. The artist has known to both Koreans and international audience however his work was not known its meanings and values because it is difficult to see and understand. The chosen artist’s work Paik’s video installation works <The More, The Better> in National Museum of Contemporary Art and <The Fractal Turtleship>in Daejeon Museum of Art was critically analyzed through cross-cultural criticism in contextual art criticism methodology criticizing his work and examining Korean and International art critiques and Paik’s intervew words. My question is “What is the criticism of Nam June Paik’s art for?” The result of this study will give a suggestion to understand such a difficult contemporary art and give an appropriate appreciation and criticism such a super hero of Korean contemporary art, Nam June Paik. The two installation work include grand amount of objects such as televisions sets and daily objects, and the video images and sounds. As results, Nam June Paik’s art was interpreted as the instruction for the Korean audience to appreciate and emphasize the value of people’s potential creativity and enhance ethnic traditions and wisdoms of the ancestors to have the national pride of tradition, in opposition of its appearance of Western invented modern invention of civilization such as Television. This result may be Nam June Paik’s will and testament which he left to Korean people and descendant Korean artists of future generations who will follow him to be disseminated in the international art world and the educational art criticism of contemporary art has the value of character education.