Recently chatting with a friend, she bluntly said that because of the epidemic, she feels very anxious about her current life.
This unpredictable external factor often inadvertently affects our emotions. Therefore, living in a utopia without life anxiety is almost everyone's dream.
A thousand people have a thousand utopias in their hearts. So, does utopia have a figurative reference? To this day, the most detailed is probably only what is described in the "Peach Blossom Origin": "The land is flat, the houses are like houses, and there are good fields, beautiful ponds, and mulberry bamboo." Strange traffic, chickens and dogs smell each other. Among them, men and women are dressed like outsiders. Yellow hair hanging down and enjoying himself. ”
From this point of view, utopia may be nothing more than a soft impression that magnifies the beautiful moments of life.
Just like the world that Kim Sang-sook depicts.
The mountains hidden in the buds after spring are conscientiously brewing hazy greenery, and the spring mood that spreads over the mountains encourages the buds, and its bloom also indicates the opening of a good mood.
When the spring light flows to the last of the flowers, the flowers bloom and the petals fall into the stream, and the swans use it as a playmate. The water flows, ripples, and experiences the beauty of life in the generous sunshine.
These scenes are almost indistinguishable from those described in The Tale of peach blossoms.
As art critic Bae Kyu-tao put it, "The biggest difference between Kim Sang-sook and other North Korean female artists is that her landscape paintings contain a grand vision. She sought to construct a utopia about the "aesthetic everyday." That is to say, she does not just create some landscapes that reflect the humanistic context of North Korea, but tries to generate a "reality" that is related to the current reality context, but belongs to the artist's reconstruction. The changing seasons, urban and rural areas, daily life, mountains and rivers, chickens, ducks, geese and dogs, etc. in this "reality" cover the whole of the beautiful world, and are impressionist painting style, presented as oil paintings under the premise of the artist's personalization. “
Some collectors have commented on Kim Sang-sook's works: Seeing his masterpieces, his heart is worry-free. The reason for this is probably that, in the eyes of many viewers, her paintings are utopias.
Source of content (Imagasai Museum of Art)