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Emissions in cohabitation of life and emotion: works by Jung-ran Noh

BYUNG KWAN CHUNG ㅣ Art Critic

Yonder Segum-Jung in dale, peeped from Bukhan Mountains. Seasons pass by, embraced in Mother Nature, methins, which renders never-ending inspirations to this artist. When two years ago, in U.S. Cultural Center, were displayed her works painted in Los Angeles, everbody were engrossed in the bliss of abiding peace and plenty. Hectic and slightly serious are those works which she has painted at her studio in Segum-Jung in the vortex of vicissitudes, there seems a change in her life. Paintings are reflecting her mind like a mirror and her works are waked by her existential imagery. Her works are also paved by a glimpse of intuition and philosophy.

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Nature itself in her paintings is camouflaged in a plea for her mental radiation, which functions as a tracendental haven to rise above the world. Here lie a breathing tint in melancholy splendor, quillprints running on path to aggressive vitality and a transparent contiguity with smearing contingencies. These are portrayed some-where around in her, aggregated like a magnet on the canvas in the vague mysteries of space-beyond her description-every minute of her painting concocted in her intellect is just in her description like a breath of nature. This is my thinking that she does not paint through its process but it oozes out by itself, as if she were born to be an artist. She works artlessly like a customed coures of flowing water in the untrodden valley, and her works are born in a native way.

I am not sure whether she can be named an abstract landscape painter or mental one. Just leave her as an artist, as she is. A shape is here reminiscent of the heights and firmament, which do not necessarily epitomize a figurative painter. Because her utter freedom can not be restricted, under any circumstances, to fly and run in her liberal tip of brush to be geared in any minute. Open freedom : it is a freedom where space breathes and a painter's mentality breathes. This is a freedom where she flies aloft into a terrain of infinity.

DUSON GALLERY, 1985.

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