Resonance by Brush Touches
Written by Park, Rhai kyoung (art critic)
Park Daa Won strokes her brush without reserve at a decisive moment allowing for no compromise. Her recent series obviously suggests the clues about what she has actually continued to pursue. Although it varies - rapid or slow, strong or soft - her brush stroke or her implicit display of power is very bold fundamentally. Here, no phenomenal world is hinted, and no world of the objects is not implicit in terms of the form organic or inorganic. It is a kind of abstraction. We can see dots and lines standing freely on her canvas. In addition, we can see not only the background canvas with wide margins but also the spaces at certain interval between dots or between dot and line. That is, we can find on her canvas the breathing chasms or some invisible spaces of development like the wave of light or the resonance of rhythm. In short, we can see the spaces as can be interpreted in such a way.
Furthermore, what we should not forget here is that her painting is centered about a furnace or her state of mind thinking of, agonizing over, meditating on our human beings and life and the phenomenon of nature and universe. Here, the artist is the subject of such mental working as well as the object thereof. The subject having such a state of mind becomes a truth seeker calming down herself before undertaking her painting work, being prepared for her artistic enterprise. Her art works will be completed through such extraordinary modus vivendi and artistic endeavor. The exemplary model can be found in her series worked out for 2 years. So to speak, these series have survived from her mental struggle.
The simple and neat tendency inherent in her works are attributable to her inborn temperament. Namely, when we try to find the ground for the spirituality of her works, we will be reminiscent of her inborn temperament. In this context, Park Daa Won seems to have a very strong intuition. In addition, she seems to have a very strong pride like many other artists.
When she does her work, Park Daa Won begins to fight herself to regain her self-esteem. In this course, she cultivates her mental power, and ultimately, her mental power turns into an internal power driving her to some simple and clear attitude toward arts. Such attitude must be different from other artists'. It is not toward the canvas work for the composition and perfection of some forms but involves some bold brush strokes visualizing her internal world of arts on the canvas.
Artist Park Daa Won was born in Daegu. She studied fine art at Yeungnam University. The family environment wherein she grew up seems to have nourished the smart kid adequately. Her parents who were well versed in both Oriental and Western fine art collected a variety of art works including calligraphic works and fine art books. In a nutshell, her family background couldn't be more adequate for her to develop her artistic sense and potential, which must be very fortunate for her. Besides, her mother endeavored much to have her learn about the basics of the calligraphy; she did not spare money to provide her gifted daughter with the expensive quality Chinese drawing paper. At that time, Seokje Suh Byoung Oh, Jukrong Suh Dong Gyun and other famous local calligraphic artists were in their heyday, which means that she grew up in a good artistic environment. She must have been impressed with their works, though unconsciously. When she was a freshwoman at Yeungnam University, she happened to review Chusa Kim Jeong Hee's <Sehando> (A Cold Winter View) only to be much impressed with the calligraphic virtuoso's masterpiece. Park Da Won who was even shocked or terrified by Chusa's lines would forget about the paper work with her memory of the thin Chinese drawing paper being dimmed.
Later, Park Daa Won would begin to do the canvas work. Then, she would be reminded and aware slowly of her fingertip experience and her teacher's admonition during her childhood. After all, the dimension she has reached after the decade-long trials and errors is her own style featuring her unique methods and forms. It is a new meaning attached to the relationships among calligraphic dots, lines and spaces.
Here, artists' additional roles requested primarily seem to be consolation and therapy. Namely, arts have additional functions: consolation and therapy.
The belief that artists can importantly communicate, sympathize and share with others through their artistic expressions to console and treat them is widely spread today in the artists' community. From such perspective, Park Daa Won's works seem to vary enough to resonate softly with the world, embracing other people; we can know such power of her works intuitively. If we review her approach to arts, we can know that it is a unique method of creation being established in her mind. So, as mentioned before, she is confident that her works will filter out the people. Those with a clean soul. Who else are the valuable audience for her? As the surrealist Andre Breton once said, what he really wanted for his ideology was the Oriental abstraction. If our Korean contemporary artist Park Daa Won could reconfirm Breton's statement in her ultra-realistic or surrealistic works, we may have to reorganize the topographic map for the Korean contemporary fine art.
Park Daa Won
Education
B.F.A Painting, Yeong nam University
M.F.A Painting, Hyo seong Catholic University
Juror for Mok Woo Hoe Grand Art Exhibition
Hold the Visiting Professor in Sangji University
Hold the Visiting Professor in Catholic University
Editor, Art Magazine
Writing, Golf Herald Magazine
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Jean Art Gallery·Jean Art Center, Seoul
Gallery Mee, Seoul
2009 Gallery Soho, Seoul
2008 Art Blue, Insa Art Center, Seoul
Sam Woo Art, Seoul
Milmul Art Center, Seoul
2001 Gisok Art Museum, Nigata
Artside Gallery, Seoul
2000 Gallery Bundo,
Dae Baek Plaza Gallery, Daegu
1999 Lotte Gallery, Seoul
PUBLICATION
2009 Hypnosis for Creative Success
- Seol Gi Moon, Park Daa Won
co-authorship
Group Exhibitions
2010 SMART, Super Message of Art, Gyeongnam Art Museum
KOREAN CIRCLE, Taegeuk, Searching for the Global
Circle : A Balance in Circulation and Reversal
Beatuy of Void, Gallery So
Breath each other, Ponetive Space
Ventriloquism of image, Interalia Art Company
2009 Exhibition Non, Museum Daily Josun
Insa Art Festival, Seoul Museum
White Line, Insa Gallery
International Creative Artists Association Invitional
Seoul World Art Fair, Sang Myung University Art Center
Invitational Exhibition Non/Museum Josun
Exhibition of Bright Modern Art, Insa Art Plaza
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