@article{ART003182088},
author={Eunsoon Yoo},
title={Korean Painting in the Post-Digital Era},
journal={The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art},
issn={1229-0246},
year={2025},
volume={74},
pages={54-77}
TY - JOUR
AU - Eunsoon Yoo
TI - Korean Painting in the Post-Digital Era
JO - The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
PY - 2025
VL - 74
IS - null
PB - 한국미학예술학회
SP - 54
EP - 77
SN - 1229-0246
AB - This paper examines the trajectory of contemporary painting after 2010, a period marked by the proliferation of mobile devices and social networking services, leading to an overwhelming increase in images and a crisis for painting. Among various terms describing this era, the author adopts “post-digital” and explores the shifting experience of images as the transition from analog to digital media unfolds. The study then analyzes three Korean artists who integrate the interaction between digital and analog media and the immateriality of digital media into painting. Noh Sangho considers paintings created with carbon-paper drawings, their scanned digital versions, and SNS uploads as equivalent originals, treating physical exhibitions and SNS feeds as equally valid experiences. His practice aims to “thin” painting both physically and conceptually. Park Hyunjeong applies the process of digitizing, processing, and transforming images in digital programs to painting, replicating the resulting digital images as analog paintings. This process highlights the differences between digital manipulation and analog painting. Lee Juri digitizes her past drawings, develops an image-generation program, and outputs the results in various formats. While these artists actively use digital tools and attributes, their works remain painterly within Krauss’s post-medium condition, as they are realized in a two-dimensional plane and originate from hand-drawn sources. However, in contrast to Krauss’s elitism, they reject the artist’s exclusive authority and share their production methods with others, thereby acquiring a new sense of democracy in painting and expanding its possibilities.
KW - Lee Juri;Noh Sangho;Painting;Park Hyunjeong;Post-digital;Post Medium
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Eunsoon Yoo. (2025). Korean Painting in the Post-Digital Era. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 74, 54-77.
Eunsoon Yoo. 2025, "Korean Painting in the Post-Digital Era", The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, vol.74, pp.54-77.
Eunsoon Yoo "Korean Painting in the Post-Digital Era" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 74 pp.54-77 (2025) : 54.
Eunsoon Yoo. Korean Painting in the Post-Digital Era. 2025; 74 54-77.
Eunsoon Yoo. "Korean Painting in the Post-Digital Era" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 74(2025) : 54-77.
Eunsoon Yoo. Korean Painting in the Post-Digital Era. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 74, 54-77.
Eunsoon Yoo. Korean Painting in the Post-Digital Era. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art. 2025; 74 54-77.
Eunsoon Yoo. Korean Painting in the Post-Digital Era. 2025; 74 54-77.
Eunsoon Yoo. "Korean Painting in the Post-Digital Era" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 74(2025) : 54-77.
