@article{ART003278859},
author={Hur Nayoung},
title={The Surreal Space of Contemporary Chesekhwa: After Chun Kyungja},
journal={Journal of History of Modern Art},
issn={1598-7728},
year={2025},
volume={0},
number={58},
pages={31-50},
doi={10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.002}
TY - JOUR
AU - Hur Nayoung
TI - The Surreal Space of Contemporary Chesekhwa: After Chun Kyungja
JO - Journal of History of Modern Art
PY - 2025
VL - 0
IS - 58
PB - 현대미술사학회
SP - 31
EP - 50
SN - 1598-7728
AB - This study investigates the formation and significance of surreal space in contemporary Chesekhwa (Korean color painting) after the Liberation period. Grounded in André Breton’s concept of Surréalism, it examines how the visualization of the unconscious and ‘dépaysement’-like juxtapositions have evolved in contemporary Chesekhwa. By analyzing works by Chun Kyungja, Park Saengkwang, Oh Nangja, Lee Whaja, Ahn Seongmin, Kwon Inkyung, Lee Jinju, Sung Min Woo, Na Hyung-Min, and Kwak Su Yeon, the research interprets their approaches to spatial composition and the aesthetic meanings embedded within.
While Chun Kyungja visualized her inner narratives and unconscious sentiments with fantastical imagery, subsequent generations expanded this practice by juxtaposing reality, memory, and symbolism to create new pictorial realms. These compositions parallel Surrealist automatism yet inherit a multi-perspectival structure and ‘yeobaek’ (aesthetics of void) from traditional Chesekhwa. The study argues that such surreal spaces signify not a mere adaptation of Western avant-garde idioms, but are a modern reinterpretation of Korea’s traditional utopian imagination. Ultimately, Chesekhwa operates as an “interstitial space” where tradition and modernity, Korea and West, intersect and embodies a unique aesthetic language that redefines the identity and contemporaneity of Korean art.
KW - Chesekhwa;Le Surréalisme;André Breton;dépaysement;Surreal Space;Korean Modern and Contemporary Paintings;Chun Kyungja
DO - 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.002
ER -
Hur Nayoung. (2025). The Surreal Space of Contemporary Chesekhwa: After Chun Kyungja. Journal of History of Modern Art, 0(58), 31-50.
Hur Nayoung. 2025, "The Surreal Space of Contemporary Chesekhwa: After Chun Kyungja", Journal of History of Modern Art, vol.0, no.58 pp.31-50. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.002
Hur Nayoung "The Surreal Space of Contemporary Chesekhwa: After Chun Kyungja" Journal of History of Modern Art 0.58 pp.31-50 (2025) : 31.
Hur Nayoung. The Surreal Space of Contemporary Chesekhwa: After Chun Kyungja. 2025; 0(58), 31-50. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.002
Hur Nayoung. "The Surreal Space of Contemporary Chesekhwa: After Chun Kyungja" Journal of History of Modern Art 0, no.58 (2025) : 31-50.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.002
Hur Nayoung. The Surreal Space of Contemporary Chesekhwa: After Chun Kyungja. Journal of History of Modern Art, 0(58), 31-50. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.002
Hur Nayoung. The Surreal Space of Contemporary Chesekhwa: After Chun Kyungja. Journal of History of Modern Art. 2025; 0(58) 31-50. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.002
Hur Nayoung. The Surreal Space of Contemporary Chesekhwa: After Chun Kyungja. 2025; 0(58), 31-50. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.002
Hur Nayoung. "The Surreal Space of Contemporary Chesekhwa: After Chun Kyungja" Journal of History of Modern Art 0, no.58 (2025) : 31-50.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.002
