id: 378677
accession number: 2021.102
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.102
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Person, early 2000s. Suh Se Ok (Korean, 1929–2020). Ink on mulberry paper; paper: 130.5 x 139 cm (51 3/8 x 54 3/4 in.); framed: 146.3 x 155.5 x 6 cm (57 5/8 x 61 1/4 x 2 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2021.102 © the Estate of Suh Se Ok. Courtesy Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and London
title: Person
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creation date: early 2000s
creation date earliest: 2000
creation date latest: 2004
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
copyright: © the Estate of Suh Se Ok. Courtesy Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and London
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culture: Korea
technique: Ink on mulberry paper
department: Korean Art
collection: Korean Art
type: Drawing
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CREATORS
* Suh Se Ok (Korean, 1929–2020) - artist
Korean painter and professor of art, who pioneered contemporary abstract ink painting on the basis of literati painting
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measurements: Paper: 130.5 x 139 cm (51 3/8 x 54 3/4 in.); Framed: 146.3 x 155.5 x 6 cm (57 5/8 x 61 1/4 x 2 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Creating Urgency: Modern and Contemporary Korean Art (Korean art rotation)
opening date: 2022-04-22T04:00:00
Creating Urgency: Modern and Contemporary Korean Art (Korean art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 22-October 23, 2022).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–2021
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2021–
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fun fact:
The artist's son, Do Ho Suh (서도호, b. 1962), is also an artist, who reinterprets Korea’s traditional house or hanok, exploring the concept of home and space.
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Starting in the 1960s, Suh Se Ok focused on dismantling the boundary between the abstract and the figurative, and calligraphy and drawing, as a way to reshape the Korean ink painting tradition and its conventional expressions. To articulate the strong gestural movement delivered by a massive amount of ink, the artist dashed a large brush over a sheet of thick and fibrous Korean mulberry paper. Here, he transformed the ink into a colossal abstract symbol, which evokes two classical Chinese characters: big (大) and person (人).
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
“Installation. Creating Urgency: Modern and Contemporary Korean Art.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 62, no. 2 (2022): back cover.
page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: Back cover.
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