Kim Kyu-gang has spent his life telling the outside world that there is a rural situation that, although in the north of the Korean Peninsula, is like all nostalgic and obsessive rural complexes, which can make the heart soft and happy. Therefore, in the current context of North Korea reality, as an artist, Kim Kyu-gang's humanistic feelings transcend his era.
——Bao Guitao (Scholar/Curator)
The English poet Cooper said, "God created the countryside and man created the city." ”
Urban life and rural life are two very different residential and emotional experiences. The city brings expectations and the countryside belongs, so it is not difficult to understand why people like the prosperity of the city, but also obsessed with the tranquility of the countryside.
Throughout the ages, many literati and art creators have loved the countryside and pastoral scenery, if there is no deep affection and love for life, we will miss Tao Yuan's simple and simple "picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, leisurely seeing the South Mountain", Wang Wei's poems have paintings, and the poems have Zen's "Bright Moon Pine Photograph, Qingquan Stone Upstream"; we will also miss Van Gogh's "Wheat Field" and Monet's "Haystack".
As the builder of the rural context of contemporary Korean oil painting, Kim Kyu-gang has lived in the countryside for a long time and takes the opportunity to talk intimately with nature and greedily ask for creative aura. Thanks to the excellent pristine landscape, his works present a more profound experience of rural life and convey his strong love for his hometown.
The countryside, a place where Jin Kuigang can both settle down and feel at ease, is constantly injecting creative inspiration for him. Bathed in the warm and melting sunshine, stepping on the soft and soft land, the senses and soul are immersed in it at the same time, and the brush moves with the heart, so there is "The Field in Front of the Door", "Yerba Buena" and "Riverside".
Some people say that those who cannot be erased by life are called love.
Like Tao Yuanming, Wang Wei, Van Gogh, Monet and other masters, Jin Kuigang carefully observed life in the countryside. With his own ingenious treatment of color, structure and layer, through common elements in daily life, Jin Kuigang tirelessly depicts the pleasant scenery of his hometown, constructs a poetic mood of "can only understand the ineffable", transmits happiness and maximum to the viewer's nerves, and brings the viewer a high degree of visual satisfaction and spiritual pleasure.
Source of content (Imagasai Museum of Art)