Paik Gannomi Tchurl Geuk

Paik "Gannomi" Tchurl Geuk
Paik "Gannomi" Tchurl Geuk
	Portrait_of_Paik-Gannomi-Tchurl_Geuk.jpg Portrait of Paik "Gannomi" Tchurl_Geuk
Born	May 16, 1912; North Pyong An Province, Korea
💀Died	March 5, 2007 (aged 94); Los Angeles, U.S.A.March 5, 2007 (aged 94)
🏳️ Nationality	Korean
💼 Occupation
Known for	Painting
Movement	Abstract art

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Paik Tchurl Geuk, also Paik Gannomi or Paik "Gannomi" Tchurl Geuk (1912–2007, hangul: 백철극), was a pioneering abstract artist of Korea.

Born May 16, 1912, in North Pyong An Province, Korea, North Pyong An Province, Paik died in Los Angeles, USA, on March 5, 2007 (aged 95).

Paik belongs to the first generation of Korean Abstract artists, mixing oriental concepts and ideals with abstraction.^[1]

Biography[edit]

Growing up as the only son among three elder sisters, under single mom who raised him through seamstress work. After high school he worked as an apprentice to a sign board painter for cinemas at Pyong Yang area to save first year's tuition to be enrolled in the College of Fine Arts at Nihon University, Tokyo.

Tokyo: 1935–1939[edit]

In 1935 he entered the College of Fine Arts at Nihon University, Tokyo and after graduation he stayed in Tokyo to further research modern arts at Hongo Academy till 1939· While in Tokyo, his mentors included Togo Seiji and Fujita Tsuguji, who influenced in new waves of cubism. His sketches done in this period illustrates clear turn towards abstraction.

Shanghai: 1939–1949[edit]

After his studies in Tokyo, Paik Gannomi moved to Shanghai, the Paris of Asia at the time, hoping to make his name known in the international art scene. He debuted at the Japanese Artist Association's "1940 Shanghai Open Exhibition", winning the highest honor award. The work titled "North Sichuan Road" was in style of impressionisticfauvism. Number of sketch works survive in the turbulent time of II World War.

Seoul: 1949-1967[edit]

The paucity of his works reflected in ensuing Korean war after the II World War. Despite the chaos of two wars his art progressed to abstractionism influenced by likes of Piet Mondrian and Jackson Pollock. His long time colleague and friend Kim Whan Ki shared common interest in furthering avant-garde movement in Korean modern art at the time.

Montreal: 1967-1969[edit]

As an artist immigrant to Canada he held the personal exhibition in 1969 at Waddington Gallery, Montreal. His art works included: Antarctica, Dessin ． en Bleu, and Three Circles.

New York: 1969-1976[edit]

His representative works during this period in New York evolved in oriental motif with flowing black lines in acryl as if with oriental ink. Simple use of three colors : black, red and aquamarine brings out his roots in Korean estheticism. His major paintings at this period include: 'Oriental Rhythm', 'Rain' and 'Sonaggi'. His reunion with old colleague Kim Whan Ki in N.Y.C. and their mutual art world intersected in that city until premature death of his friend in 1974.

Paris: 1976-1982[edit]

His most prolific art works are produced at this stage with Fauvist coloration and abstractionism steeped in expressionistic creations. He garnered prestigious award at Salon d'Automne, 1981 with work titled 'Paysage Seine'. His one of 'Sainte Face' series also won "Mention Speciale" award from Paris Mayor in 1980. His other major work at this period 'Aggressor' and 'L'avion' which are among the permanent collection of Korea National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.

New York: 1983-1986[edit]

His religious painting series with 'Christ Face' are about forty in number and most of them are created when he came back from Paris. It is almost crux of his faith that culminated in confessional art form.

Paris: 1986-1988[edit]

He went back to Paris for furthering creative research in the art milieu. Among his contemporary artist at the time include: Nam Kwan, Kim Chang Ryul, and Kim Heung Soo.

Los Angeles: 1989-2007[edit]

Due to his illness he was not able to produce creative works further. The last exhibition in 2004, mainly with religious works in Wilshire Presbyterian Church, he passed away 1n 2007.

References[edit]

↑ Having started from a classic art, then expressionist, within the limits of figuratism, PAIK GANNOMI was not long in breaking away from his starting point and in discovering his personnel way compromised between the real - from which he continues to draw inspiration and which we discovered subjacent - and the surreal synthetism, in bounds of abstraction. Thus we go from a very coloured constructivist composi-tion, such as "RAIN", to a concise impressiontsm manifested for example in "ANTARCTIC". Or furthermore, we discover an hesitating treillism, dreamy faces who question us, dreamers who leave us dreamers ourselves. But sometimes, the motion, too, inspires him in passionate and rythmical graphism, or a relative "tachisme"(blobbing) that makes us dream of Leonardo da Vinci's musings face with the saltpetre of a ruined wall. His exhibition at Galerie Marcel Bernheim, in this Parisian quarter traditionnally serving for all the best inter nationnal presentations, will and must hold the most favorable attention of the press and collectionners-in which we are keenly interested-who distinguist in PAIK GANNOMI a constitution having succeeded to adapt himself and found, in this confused, equivocal world of modern fine arts, a solution through a kind of compromise which deserves encouragements and more than that, the prizes, diplomes and other distinctions already obtained from Shanghai to Verdun(Quebec) or from Tokyo to Osan(Korea) are inevitable sequel of an original talent, seriously completed by his Academic and Univeraity studies carried out in China, Japan, or in Korea.