Artist J. Kim

Kim covers Korean folk musicWhen an art critic has before him/her the works of Artist J. Kim (Kim Jin in full name), the immediate mental picture he/she forms of him and his paintings is the landscape, more accurately mountains, of which the artist seems to feel as if he were a part.J. Kim frequently visits the mountains on the east coast in the Kangwon and Kyongsang provinces, especially Chongson which is closely connected with traditional Korean folk songs, Arirang and Arari that form a great source of his inspiration.Pine trees, which have all but become a synonym of Korea, are also an essential part of nature from which Kim draws inspiration for his work.Naturally, critics link Kim's works with the mountains and traditional Korean folk music, especially Arirang and Arari in Chongson and the adjoining region of the east coast mountains.
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Another distinctive feature of Artist Kim is his devotion to the coverage of beauty inherent in the tradition of Korea in an Oriental mentality in spite of the fact he has consistently pursued oil (western) painting.
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Artist Kim was born in Seoul in 1939, graduated from Kyung Hee University in Seoul with a major in western painting in 1981 and also from its post-graduate school.He then studied western painting at Augsburg University in Germany.J. Kim has given solo and group exhibitions on a countless number of occasions in Korea and around the world, including 12- and 24-man modern exhibitions at Yale Gallery in Seoul this year. He is currently a professor at Soong Eui Women's College in Seoul. (For further details, call 556-4135(H)/3708-9205(S).)*