Mr. Misang: All Consuming Capitalism

Lee JuYong aka Mr. Misang 미상씨 (KR)
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curated by YellowMenace (44+ images)

    Anyong Haseyo, Art Addicts! Prepare to wallow in complete excess.

   Mr. Misang is a Korean illustrator who constantly criticizes the overstimulated, overcrowded, total gluttony of modern urban life by over-stuffing his artworks with signs, symbols, machinery & pop culture references. He creates visual cacophony reflecting the oppressive emotional effects of living in South Korea, which is like a corporate culture pressure cooker because of it's relatively small size & rapid rise to the upper tier of the global market economy. Despite this, JuYong gets hired by numerous magazines & brands to illustrate posters, covers, animations, etc.

YoonJin Jo: Famous Packing Tape Portraits

YoonJin Jo 조윤진

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   YoonJin Jo is a Korean artist who creates portraits of celebrities using colored packing tape. The result looks like the low-res, geometric, color blocking popular in digital graphic design mixed with classic Warholesque messy screen printing. Check out the video below to better understand her creative process.

   Women's History Month is in full swing on YM blog featuring my favorite Asian female artists, click HERE to see them all.

So Youn Lee: Marshmallow Mango

So Youn Lee
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   So Youn Lee is a Korean artist who creates paintings that look like the pastel colored marshmallows in children's breakfast cereal. She focuses on creating iterations of Mango, her colorful, kawaii, androgynous character representing self-acceptance & inner peace.

   I'm celebrating my favorite Asian female artists in March for Women's History Month, click HERE to see them all.

ART: Dali Roll - Surreal Sensuality

Dali Roll (달리롤) - (35 Images)
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   South Korean artist Dali Roll (달리롤) creates digital dreamscapes erupting with symbols of female reproduction. Ovals, ova, eggs, & other vulvic shapes dominate her work. The cute, flat, comic style & cheerful colors contradict the obsessive angst of the subject matter. Her digital creations seem to channel cryptic cries from the feminine collective unconscious.   

ART: Sketch Master Kim JungGi

JungGi Kim (김정기) - (28 Images)
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   Master Kim JungGi loves drawing & seems to never stop sketching. He draws just about everything, as I have presented in these past posts; Ancient Asia, War & Holidays. 

   In this collection, I've gathered JungGi's sketches about sketching. These are less fantastic & more based on his actual surroundings; observing his art students at AniChanga, the art & animation school he co-directs, in the car with his family or just waiting around in a park.

HAIKU Art Review: Jung-Gi Kim

Freehand sketch master
Eraserless perfection
Divine fish-eyed view

See 17 more JungGi drawings in Sketches of Ancient Asia

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ART: Casper Kang - Bridging Perspectives

Casper Kang - (25 Images)
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   Born in Canada in 1981, Casper Kang lives & works in Seoul, South Korea. He draws inspiration from the corpus of traditional Korean imagery, reinterpreting & presenting the history of his mother culture as a formal recollection of an alternate past.

HAIKU Art Review: Casper Kang

Outsider inside
Bridging cultures & history
Reconstructing time

ART: Sketches of Ancient Asia by Kim JungGi (김정기)

JungGi Kim (김정기) - (17 Images)
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   The argument over artistic talent vs effort ends with Kim JungGi. He is a uniquely gifted master artist who draws sprawling wide-angle murals, in ink with no references, relying only on images in his mind & without making any mistakes. His most recent accomplishment was setting the Guinness World Record for longest & fastest fish-eye art illustration at Odeon in Penang, Malaysia.

HAIKU Art Review: Jung-Gi Kim

Freehand sketch master
Eraserless perfection
Divine fish-eyed view

   To fully understand Jung Gi's genius, watch the drawing performance he did for Christie's Auction House. He travels all over the world performing his art. Typically, he works for 2-3 days on a large mural while cameras record his progress, then the time-lapse video gets upload to his YouTube channel.  

JungGi Kim's Drawing Performance for Christie's

ART: Korean Basketball Illustrated by Kim Minsuk

MinSuk Kim (김민석) - (13 works)

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   There's been a lot of basketball over the last 2 months & with the NBA Finals about the begin I wanted to present a different perspective through the incredible work of Korean illustrator, CEO & instructor, MinSuk Kim (김민석).

   Kim MinSuk aka Kwang33 is one of the leading sports illustrators in Korea. He designs for several sports organizations, magazines & international clients. He has worked 10 years as the lead designer for the Korean magazine, "Rookie" which covers the NBA. He illustrates for the Korean Basketball League as well as Jumpball magazine which covers the KBL. He shares many of his designs on his Facebook page NBA Illustration.

ART: Rudcef - Tear Away Faces

Rudcef  -  (21 Images)

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    South Korean Illustrator Rudcef uses his art to connect with people & overcome social anxiety. He was majoring in statistics when the death of a family member caused him to reevaluate life & pursue a career in art. He has done many celebrity portraits, such as A$AP Yams & Rocky, Lana Del Rey, & Kendall Jenner.

HAIKU Art Review: Rudcef

Dark pigments align 
Sick artistic autopsy
Faces tear away 

   I draw for “compathy” - sharing my feelings via art to fill the absence of communication in my life. All humans appear different, but we have the same organs, so for me anatomy represents our genuine being.

ART: MinSuk Kim (김민석) - NBA 2014-15 Season in Review

MinSuk Kim (김민석) - (17 works)

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   With the NBA Playoffs upon us, I thought it would be fun to take a visual review of this year's outstanding players via MinSuk's stylish illustrations.

    MinSuk aka Kwang33 is one of the leading sports illustrators in Korea. He designs for several sports organizations, magazines & international clients. He has worked 10 years as the lead designer for the Korean magazine, "Rookie" which covers the NBA. He illustrates for the Korean Basketball League as well as Jumpball magazine which covers the KBL. He shares many of his designs on his Facebook page NBA Illustration.

   This has been Stephan Curry's year. Truly a special season where everything seemed to come together for the Warriors. I think Steve Kerr is a very special basketball mind & his time with Gregg Popovich has had a lot to do with his current success. But Curry is the glue of the team, with his on court domination, focus & demeanor with Kerr & teammates which brought them to 67 wins & will take them deep into the playoffs.

ART: Song Hye Yeol (송혜열) - Rotten Eggs

Song Hye Yeol (송혜열)
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HAIKU Art Review: Hye Yeol by Yellowmenace

Twisted, broken, stretched
Ingrained forms writhe, organs churn
Rotten Easter eggs

    South Korean female artist, Song Hye Yeol (송혜열)'s bizarrely intoxicating 'pain'-tings on wood.

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ART: Hoon - Creative Character

Hoon

Haiku Art Review:  Hoon by Yellowmenace

Unique warriors
Endless imagination
Lusciously detailed

    10 years ago when I discovered Deviant Art, Hoon was one of the 1st artist I followed. The characters he creates are filled w/ so much life, just by looking at one of his pieces you can imagine a story & world the character would live in. 

ARTIST: Kim Joon (김준) - Tattooed Torsos

Kim Joon (김준): Tattooed Torsos
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   The internet has a short memory. I know these works were all over the net 3-4 years ago & Kim Joon is one of the most famous modern Asian artists, but I had them sitting on my computer since 07, so I thought they were worth displaying again.

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HAIKU Art Review: Kim Joon

Lean labeled limbs

Glorifying consumption?

Empty hands grasp at...

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   Kim Joon (김준) was born in Seoul, Korea in 1966.

ART: Minjae Lee aka Greno

Minjae Lee aka Greno

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- Professional Artist | Traditional Art – markers & ink

- Born Jan 11, 1989 in Jinhae, South Korea

- Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea

The Dream

   Probably MJ's most famous work, I came across this on Deviant Art around 2009 & I was an instant fan. The level of intricate detail draws ur eye & holds ur gaze as U continue to examine the figure.

   I love the abstraction & accent of color in the hand capturing motion or another angle, giving a subtle 'shout out' back at Picasso & Cubism.

Devon Aoki

This is one of MJ's more recent works & I wonder if Ms. Aoki has seen this & if so, what was her reaction.

Commission

   We've heard countless lovers, poets & songwriters describe the feeling of being lost or absorbed by physical beauty. What MJ does so successfully is make this notion concrete via the painstaking & thoughtful detail laid upon these women's bodies. We are invited to look, look for a long time, & look closely.

   Lots more drawings below!