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Choi Gwang Hyok



Curriculum Vitae

The artist with the sincere spirit of inquiry and passion.

Artist grade: 2(B)
Birthday: 21st December 1970
Birthplace: Pyongyang City

Career:
Graduated from Pyongyang University of Fine Arts in 1992.

Masterpiece:
Oil painting   “The iron ranks”
                        “The jubilee on 24th December”
                        “The night of June in 1950”
                        “The stream in the home village”




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North Korean Jewel paintings

This is a typical North Korean technique. The painting is made with coloured stone powders on rigid panels. No other painting is more time-consuming to produce: in fact, it takes many weeks to finish one. In the past the technique was called "Powder Painting", but Kim Il Sung changed it to "Korean Jewel Painting" to point out that it was developed in Korea using precious Korean stones.

Korean painting, ink painting on paper

This style of painting demands that the artist draw from start to finish without stopping. He cannot correct or draw over what he has painted. This style requires great skill and takes from 10 - 20 years of training.
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