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Korean Contemporary Artistic Issue

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Korean Contemporary Artistic Issue

Introduction

The long standing challenge to contemporary Korean art is to establish a historical claim for itself as it developed in the implicit absence of a time-honored norm of modern Korean art . The job of Korean artists now is to distinguish Korean art from those of other countries . This is because of the fact that contemporary Korean art has the characteristics of European art with broad Japanese

influence . This presents a weak basis for a reasonable development or revolution from traditional to contemporary art in the history of Korean art , much less the institution of a distinct school of art

After Korea 's liberation from the Japanese empire , which was followed by the Korean War several decades ago , Korean artists saw the opportunity to abandon their shallow and old-fashioned notion of modern art and attempted to establish their own definition or understanding of contemporary art . The liberation from the Japanese occupation , as well as the Korean War served as a catalyst for Korean artists to develop Korea 's first communal ultramodern art movement dubbed as Art Informel

The dramatic transformation of modern-day Korean art is usually categorized into four epochs - the Art Informer , which commenced from the late 1950s to mid-1960s the Expansionist and Restorative Art , which developed from the late 1960s to mid-1970s PanNaturalism or Post-minimalism , which extended from 1970s up to present time , and finally , New Imagism , which expanded...