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The Meaning of Korean Hyperrealism Paintings after 1990s in the Age of Post-Medium Condition : Focused on the Concept of Medium by Rosalind Krauss

  • The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
  • Abbr : JASA
  • 2017, 52(), pp.295-331
  • DOI : 10.17527/JASA.52.0.09
  • Publisher : 한국미학예술학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Other Arts and Kinesiology
  • Published : October 31, 2017

Hur Nayoung 1

1목원대학교

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ABSTRACT

The goal of this study is to analyze hyperrealism paintings made since the 1990s. The hyperrealism painters have created and corrected digital images with digital cameras and computer programs. Then they paint shapes and vivid colors that can be perceived by human vision, on a canvas. This process is similar to the concept of reinventing the medium as told by Rosalind Krauss. She suggests that the reinventing of the medium overcomes the age of post-medium condition, where the identities of the media are blurred and mixed and are based on memories of obsolete media. In this regard, Korean hyperrealism paintings support paintings and canvases, but they also structure the paintings through the automatism method of the artists. Thus, hyperrealism paintings restore the representation of paintings, human perception, and narratives that were denied in Modernism. Therefore, Korean hyperrealism paintings, which have been attracting attention since the 1990s, can be analyzed as reinventing the medium for a new age, rather than following the old media.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.