Whanki Kim was an artist whose profound impact on the history of Korean art was seen in the first wave of abstract art. His nomadic lifestyle led him to many different places, like Japan, France, and the U.S., which differentiated his artwork from other artists, who created their art based in Korea, due to the lack of opportunities for travel.

KIM Whanki, also known as Su-Wha(樹話), was a pioneer of the Korean avant-garde and abstract art scene by virtue of his natural- born talent, temperament and spirit of challenge. He created a moving, meditative world of art whose formative beauty was achieved through the use of deep, abundant colors with lyrical sensibility.

Oct 30, 2019 · Kim Whanki (1913-1974) is hailed as one of the pioneers of abstract painting in Korea. His peripatetic lifestyle, which saw him move from his homeland to Japan, France and finally to America, reflects his quest to develop and express a unique abstract painting style.

Whanki Kim was a Korean painter best known for his softly colored abstractions. View Kim Whan-Ki’s 887 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available paintings, works on paper, and prints and multiples for sale and learn about the artist.

Kim Whanki, who was active as a professor and writer in his home country, left for three years of study in France in 1956 after the Korean War ended. Since then, his artistic world has been recognized worldwide beyond Korea, and he has become a representative modernist painter in Korea both in name and reality.

Kim Whanki (1913-1974) is one of the most influential 20th century Korean artists. In the late 1930s, Kim was a pioneer in the radical field of abstract art and was a critical figure leading Korean modernism.

Kim Whanki (Korean, 1913–1974) was a painter best known for his geometric, Abstract paintings that reflect Korean cultural traditions. Born in Sinan County, South Korea, he studied at Nihon University in Japan, and expressed early interest in European modernist painters, such as Pablo Picasso, Fernard Leger, and Mark Rothko.

Kim Whanki is one fundamental artist to know: not only because he is a central figure of Korean modernism, but also because his legacy is still carried on today. Driven by an experimental spirit, the artist lived and worked in Seoul, Tokyo, Paris, and New York.

Kim Wan-Ki was born in Shinan in South Cholla Province and entered the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1933. He participated in the "Twelve Artists, Room No.9" exhibition in Tokyo in 1936 and he had one-person exhibition at Amagi gallery in Tokyo in 1937.

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