Lee Jung-seob
Painting, Visual Artist
1916 – 1956
Who was Lee Jung-seob?
Lee Jung Seob was a Korean oil painter.
He entered into Dosan School and met an art teacher named Lim Yongryeon who had studied art at Yale University and worked as an artist in Paris. He was affected by Lim Yongryeon who emphasized drawing.
Born on 1916, He entered Teikoku Art School for Occidental Painting in Japan in 1932 and studied Art in earnest. But he abruptly quit that school and entered Bunka Gakuen, which was more fascinated with the avant-garde than Teikoku Art School. He showed Fauvist tendencies and a strong and free drawing style at Bunka Gakuen. Also he met a woman named Yamamoto Masako who would later be his wife.
He graduated from Bunka Gakuen in 1944 during the last stage of World War II, and married Masako the following year. In 1946, his first child was born but the baby died suddenly from diphtheria. At that time, he was preparing an exhibition and making artwork as an unknown artist and the death of his child shocked him. Taking this event, he sent his painting "A Child Flies with a White Star", which was inspired by his loss, to the exhibition commemorating the independence of Korea in 1947.
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- Born
- Apr 10, 1916
South Pyongan - Spouses
- Yamamoto Masako
(1945 - )
- Yamamoto Masako
- Children
- Nationality
- North Korea
- Profession
- Education
- Musashino Art University
Art
(1965 - )
- Musashino Art University
- Died
- 1956
Seoul
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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