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Lim Jik-soonSeoul Museum (Seokpajeong)
Lim Jik-soon: I Long to Paint the World Within
임직순: 내면의 세계를 그리고 싶다
About the exhibition
An unfinished palm tree rises from a yellow ground, shown with the easel Lim Jik-soon used. Financial News reports that the family found Palm Tree (1996) in the studio after the funeral. It is on public view for the first time.
The real objects are the point. A rattan armchair sits beside the seated figures painted in it, vases stand near the flower paintings, and palettes of hardened paint and brushes are on view, among about 30 belongings. Segye Ilbo describes a routine from the 1980s: models in the morning, flowers after lunch.
About 80 oils run in order from the 1960s to the mid-1990s, with drawings, watercolors and prints, as solid compositions loosen into color, line and brushwork. The title is the painter's own phrase. Sketches and paintings of two pine trees, repeated until the end, show the same subject being reworked.
About the artist
Lim Jik-soon (1921–1996) was born in Goesan and studied oil painting at the Japan Art School. Segye Ilbo reports the presidential prize at the 1957 national art exhibition, a 1961 post at Chosun University in Gwangju and about 25 solo shows.
Sources: Segye Ilbo · Financial News
