Yong-Man Kwon

You will have difficulty getting Yong-Man to speak about himself, so let Patrice de la Perrière, who was director of the Universe of Arts, speak about him:

"Kwon Yong-Man is one of those artists, rare, it must be said, for whom art is above all transmission, allowing Beauty and thought to be united through the emotions felt.

In his works, nothing is anecdotal, nothing is left to chance, everything is essential. He seeks to translate nature by interpreting it without copying it, but rather by extracting from what he sees the primordial element that touches him the most.

Thus, all these landscapes that he tracks down with the hunter's instinct are sublimated and transcribed onto the canvas with the desire to bring the viewer into a personal and original universe.

What is certain is that Kwon Yong-Man does not hesitate to go beyond the image he glimpsed on the motif, depicting through rigorous composition, an urban landscape, a seascape or everyday characters.

With a very spontaneous and sincere painting, Kwon Yong-Man knows how to adapt to the difficulties of a subject, playing with colors, lines, volumes and values, skillfully organizing the different elements that make up the canvas, thus creating a dynamism that animates the whole.

Thus, with a pictorial writing anchored in tradition, in the knowledge of a “beautiful profession” that he learned during his artistic studies. An artist of this caliber can only fit into the panorama of current painting."