1980-90년대 한국화의 수묵추상

Abstract

Ink stick was the most important tool for expression in East Asian Paintings to show what intellectuals thought and how their daily lives were at that time, which had been expressed in a unique visual language as time passes by. It was a fixed material for the Real-Scenery Landscape Painting that had kept traditional painting techniques in the modern period. It was also used as a core material for ink painting based on the concept of Literary Painting. The mutual exchange and junction between ink painting and the idea of abstraction were found in Mukrimhoe that was established in the 1960s. The members of Mukrimhoe pursued nonobjective art that focused on Orientalism while they were blamed for being followers of western expressionism. For them, ink painting was just a tool for nonobjective art. They considered ink stick as an item for visualization regardless if it was used for a nonobjective art or not although being insisted that the Ink Painting Movement in 1980s was a succession to the Orientalism. It was during the late 1980s that abstract ink painting had been settled down. Painters engaged in abstract ink painting tried to synchronize their feelings with the use of ink stick and did not cling to the metanarratives of conventional Orientalism. They actively accepted the influential Korean abstract ink painting that came from western abstraction and even tried to show a new possibility beyond it in rich and expressive ways.