Lee Joong Seop 이중섭
1916/4/10 ~ 1956/9/6 , He was a famous artist in South Korea, and he still is.
He was born in a rich family, and he fell in love with a japanese women called 山本方子 (Yamamoto Masaco). He was living a happy life with his family. But after the marriage Korea war began so they had some tough times but soon they go to Jeju Island, their money problem was a big problem for their family living in a small house altogether but they were still happy. These times didn't go as far as Joong seop thought. The reality brought them to live a part, he sends his family to japan and he stays in Jeju. Because of his sorrow of missing his family his art world creates, in his drawing he mostly shows a life of a happy family or the sorrow of family departing, and mostly about missing them.
Him having no money to draw makes him the new sensation of art world. He starts to draw on the cigarette paper, this was a new expression of art in history, and he started to draw on every blank
he sees.
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love |
But as this was happening he could never get rid of his desire of him getting reunited with his family, which never comes true. But his sadness brings a pure soul to Korea's art.
If you take a look at Lee Joong Seop's works you see he mostly drew a happy form of family or mainly COWS. People say that the pure heart of cows and the patient things in cow appears in his life too. The recorded lifestyle of Lee Joong Seop says that he liked cows since the age of teenager. He used to look in to neighbours cows and draw and got accused as cow theif. The drawing of cows were the drawing of his inside and self portrait. Also cows in korea appears to koreans like a very close friend because people couldn't really live without the cows, they needed them to fill their stomach. People think thats why Lee joon seop especially drew cows more as a sign of his thing.
Before his death he has once in a life time 딴따라라라 exhibition at midopa department store(미도파백화점.) which his kind friends has it all arranged for him.
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this picture is the map of where in jeju
the memorial hall of lee joong seop is |
His death was rather sad. He had no money he spent most of his life smoking and had some issue with himself. But his health was heading through the climax when he was under nutrition because of this he also had a compication with neurasthenia and hepatitis.When his friends searched for him he was already dead, he was dead at the Red Cross Hospital at the age of 41. Now in Jeju people renovated Lee Joong Seop's house and made it as a memorial hall.
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this picture is the title of
heaven of peach and children |
Lee Joong Seop i hope many people in the world would have some interest in him too. Very good talent lost in so short time. I hope he would be with his family in the next life or heaven.
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