American graffiti artist in SeoulAmerican graffiti artist John Perello (R), better known as JonOne, talks with Won Kyung-hwan, chief of Seoul Police Agency, at the agency on Jan. 28, 2019. He painted a mural representing South Korean police protecting human rights and the socially weak. (Yonhap)
Pedestrians walk past street artworks depicting fried eggs and melted rubber slippers in front of Hyundai Department Store in Daegu on July 13, 2018, fitting structures for the city some 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul which often records some of the highest temperatures during summer. The mercury rose to 34 degrees C on the day but felt close to 38 degrees due to sun rays and humidity. (Yonhap)
This seems to me to be pretty sexist because I cannot remember a male Korean president being depicted like this and celebrated by an opposition party:
Some people, presumed to be members of a conservative civic group, rush to the assembly building in Yeouido, western Seoul, on Tuesday to damage the painting “Dirty Sleep” by flinging it to the ground. [YONHAP]After the display of a satirical painting depicting a nude President Park Geun-hye the main opposition Democratic Party on Tuesday decided to refer its lawmaker, Pyo Chang-won, to its ethics panel for hosting the exhibition.
About 20 people, presumed to be members of a conservative civic group, rushed on Tuesday to the lobby of the Lawmakers’ Office Building attached to the National Assembly in Yeouido, western Seoul, where the painting was on display, to damage the painting titled “Dirty Sleep” by flinging it to the ground.
The artists participating in the exhibition, including Lee Guyeong, who made the painting, then gathered at the building to issue a statement demanding compensation for the damages and respect for freedom of expression.
The exhibition started on Friday and the painting quickly became the talk of the town.
The painting’s composition is generally based on the 19th-century French painter Edouard Manet’s famous “Olympia”(1863).
In it, Park is lying on a bed and her long-time friend, Choi Soon-sil, is offering up a bouquet of syringes while the Sewol ferry is seen out a window sinking into the sea.
The painting portrays the suspicion that Park was sleeping or receiving cosmetic treatment during the April 2014 Sewol ferry sinking. Park’s head is combined with a nude body from the painting “Sleeping Venus”(1510) by Italian Renaissance master Giorgione, which inspired Titian’s “Venus of Urbino” and later Manet’s “Olympia.” Unlike in “Olympia,” which is distinguished by the woman looking directly at the viewer, in the new work Park looks down, as if in shame. [Joong Ang Ilbo]
Jean Penicaut, head of France’s Lumiere Technology, refutes the Seoul prosecution’s recent conclusion on the authenticity of the late South Korean painter Chun Kyung-ja’s “Beautiful Woman” during a news conference at the Press Center in Seoul on Dec. 27, 2016. He said his art appraisal team found the work, currently housed by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, to be a fake, squarely refuting the prosecution’s conclusion, which ended a 25-years-long controversy over the work’s genuineness. (Yonhap)
