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Oh Yoon (in Hangul: 오윤, April 13, 1946July 5, 1986) was a South Korean painter whose pieces focused on peoples' art. It was during the 1980s when military officials took the regime in line with the contradition of capitalism in Korean society, notably Gwangju massacre in 1980. Hence, his artworks largely expressed interests in joys and sorrows of citizens during the 1970s and 1980s.〔(민중의 애환 투박한 線으로 ) Hankook Ilbo 2002-11-03〕 ==Biography== Born in 1946, he went to Department of Arts majoring in sculpture at Seoul National University. His father was a novelist, Oh Young-su.〔("오영수 문학관 '父子연계' 육성해야" ) Newsis 2013-01-14〕 It is said he was greatly influenced by his grandfather and uncle, the great master of Dongrae crane dance.〔(춤추는 민중미술가 오윤의 재발견 ) Yonhap 2012-09-18〕 Dongrae crane dance is one of the most famed Korean traditional dances which describes the movement of cranes originated from Dongrae, current Busan. He was the first member of the artisting movement "Reality and Speech" (현실과 발언), a grouping of young writers and artists, the group of which intended to express the suppression of Korean society.〔(미술운동 '현실과 발언' 30주년..대규모 회고전(Large-scale commemorating exhibition on art movement to celebrate 30 years of Reality and Speech ) Yonhap 2010-07-23〕 His pieces focused on social function of art, researching on the traditional Korean arts such as Minhwa, what-so-called shamanic paintings, Talchum and ''Gut'', traditional form of exorcism. His works are the shards of effortless research on people's lives with sarcasm and beauty of lines with sorrow or resentment which is commonly called ''Han''(in Hangul:한). Through this way, he expressed Han based on lives of commoners in woodprints.〔(목판화 인생 30년 판화가 이철수 ) Yonhap 2011-06-15〕 Though his major was firstly sculptor, his woodprints have been appreciated to deal with shapes of people.〔(‘오윤 회고전’…판화오 조각으로 민중의 애환 아로새겨 ) 2002-12-01〕 His works failed to gain enough attention before his death, which was later revalued as the icon of people's arts in the 1980s〔(12월 20일 화제의 전시 ) Hankyoreh 2006-12-20〕 since the decade referred to the transition to the democracy in South Korea. He died of Cirrhosis at the age of 40 after his first exhibition in Seoul.〔(민중미술 거장 오윤 전집 출간 ) Yonhap 2010-07-20〕 In 2010, complete collection of O yoon was published by collaborative works and well-known poet Kim Chi-Ha also joined the project.〔(‘리얼리즘 미술의 상징’ 오윤의 작품과 생애(The Lifetime of O Yoon, the symbol of Realism art) ) Donga Ilbo〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「O Yoon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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