Chang Ucchin

Chang Ucchin
Hangul 장욱진
Hanja 張旭鎭
Revised Romanization Jang Ukjin
McCune–Reischauer Chang Ukchin
This is a Korean name; the family name is Chang.

Chang Ucchin (26 November 1917 – 27 December 1990) is one of the representatives of modern Korean fine art.[1] Chang was born when Korea was still under Japanese colonial rule. He studied western art at Tokyo's Imperial School of Art. He became a professor of fine arts at Seoul National University in 1954, but resigned to paint full-time from 1960.

Chang Ucchin is one of the representatives of modern Korean fine art. He effects a unique way in painting routine objects familiar to all Koreans such as children, magpies, the sun, and the moon. In the midst of the current of Western Modernism, he developed his own style of painting by investigating and experimenting.

In addition to oil painting, he tried various formative practices such as marker pen drawing, Chinese ink painting, painting on pottery, silkscreen, copperplate print, and wood-block print. He depicted scenery surrounding him, his neighbors, and themes related to Buddhism, as if a child seeing them with clear eyes.

References

  1. Chang Ucchin. Chang Ucchin Museum of Art Yangju City.

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