Unsan Cho Pyong-hwi, Who Led the Modernization of Ink Landscape Painting, Passes Away
A Lifelong Dedication to the Modernization of Traditional Landscape Painting
Passed Away at 94
Unsan Cho Pyong-hwi, who dedicated his life to modernizing traditional ink landscape painting, has passed away at the age of 94.
According to his family on the 3rd, he passed away around 10 p.m. on the 2nd at a nursing hospital in Gyeonggi Province.
Born in 1932 in Yeonan, Hwanghae Province, he fled to Incheon to escape the Korean War. He later studied Oriental painting under Lee Sang-beom and Kim Ki-chang at the Department of Painting at Hongik University.
After graduating from university, he briefly explored abstract painting, but from the 1970s, he focused on landscape painting. Since the 1990s, he established his own unique style characterized by strong brushstrokes and dynamic compositions. His landscapes, known as "Unsan Scenery," have been recognized as works that demonstrate a modern transformation of traditional ink landscape painting.
For his contribution to the modernization of landscape painting, he was awarded the Dongbaek Medal of the Order of Civil Merit in 1999 and received the Korea Artist Award in 2010. He held large-scale retrospective exhibitions at the Daejeon Museum of Art in 2007 and 2022, and at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Gwacheon in 2014.
Since 1977, he taught future generations as a professor at the College of Fine Arts at Mokwon University and also served as director of the Unbo Museum of Art.
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He is survived by his son Cho Yoo-hwan, Executive Director at AL Robot; daughter Cho Yoon-mi; son-in-law Kim Jong-gwan, CEO of Vitrosys; and daughter-in-law Yoon Kyung-hee, Professor at the Career Development Center of Sookmyung Women's University. The funeral will be held in Room 31 of the funeral hall at Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, with the procession scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on the 5th. The burial site will be Bundang Memorial Park in Seongnam.
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