Title of art	뉴욕 그리니치 빌리지에서/In Greenwich Village of New York			Sector	Korean painting (한국화)
Art specifications	31?23cm			Material technique	Ink and color on paper
Collection year	1998			Production year	1969
Gallery	Seoul Museum of Art			Artist	Chun Kyung-ja
Description of art	Chun Kyung-ja established a unique style of the traditional chaesaekhwa [oriental color painting]. While chaesaekhwa comprises the majority of her best-known paintings, Chun also created many travel paintings, ink and color wash paintings, illustrations, and drawings. Chun embarked on a series of trips overseas for about 30 years since 1969. Chun’s travel paintings are her unique genre of works based on the artist’s sketches capturing the moments and experiences she witnessed during her trips. From 1964 to 1974, Chun created quick pen or pencil sketches during her travels abroad, later lightly painting them over with watercolor. Such style can be seen in her travel paintings created in the South Pacific and Europe in 1969, demonstrating Chun's expert sketching skills. Since her trips to Africa in 1974, Chun reflected the primitive aesthetics in her sketched lines colored with gouache. Her travel paintings transformed to feature more vibrant, primary colors. Whereas her early travels produced more in situ sketches drawn on site, Chun’s works from her travels eventually became more complete paintings in vibrant colors and fantastical compositions with each trip. Through such process, Chun’s travel paintings evolved from mere records of the artist’s trips, to paintings filled with unique and mystical wonder, establishing it as an independent genre of chaesaekhwa. (1969) is a travel sketch capturing the images of hippies in New York. During her stay in an apartment on the 8th Avenue in New York City, Chun often sketched young Americans and hippies at the Greenwich Village, which was 10 minutes away from her apartment by subway. Greenwich Village became the mecca of hippies ever since contemporary art such as Pop Art became the trend. There were young Americans of all shapes and sizes, young people whose gender could not be immediately determined at a glance, fashionable women with flamboyant dresses and accessories, and people of all races mingling in music. Such artistic atmosphere of Greenwich Village fascinated Chun, and inspired her to create many sketches there. Chun captured the unique traits of her subjects with quick strokes while maintaining sound composition. Given pen and paper are hardly the ideal mediums for free, graceful sketches, these works demonstrate Chun’s skilled sketching abilities.
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