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Yun Hyong Keun [Yun Hyong-gun]
(b 1928). Korean painter. He graduated in 1957 from Hong’ik University, Seoul, and spent two years in Paris from 1980 to 1982. He has exhibited in Korea, East Asia, Western and Eastern Europe, the USA and South America and is regarded as a leader of Korean modernism. In the 1960s Yun experimented with Western styles but returned in the 1970s to themes inspired by nature and his Korean roots, a progression he shared with several of his contemporaries. In his paintings he attempts to visualize the processes of nature without force or artifice and to record unselfconsciously, if not unconsciously, the passage of life. Working in oil with a palette restricted to two colours, burnt umber and light ultramarine, he applies several layers of paint to canvases of varying texture and absorbency in a process that may stretch over several years. The resulting blocks of colour—which result in an effect he calls the colour of ‘rotted leaves’—possess great depth and vibrancy.
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