Today’s Ink Wash Painting
Today’s Ink Wash Painting, Brochure, 1982, MMCA Art Research Center Collection

Today’s Ink Wash Painting

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Today’s Ink Wash Painting was an exhibition held from October 25 through 31, 1982 at Songwon Gallery. Ten artists participated in the exhibition: Kim Shik, Park Yunseo, Park Inhyun, Seong Jong-hak, Song Soonam, Shin San-ok, Lee Yunho, Rhee Chulryang, Hong Sukchang, and Hong Yongsun. The exhibition featured twenty works, two works by each artist. These works exhibited new modes of expression by depicting previously unseen subject matters such as landscapes of the outskirts of the city and industrial areas and emphasizing the properties of paper, brush, and ink. Before Today’s Ink Painting in 1982, a series of exhibitions themed around ink and wash had been held, including Korean Contemporary Ink Painting at the National Museum of Modern Art, Korea (now MMCA) in 1981, Ink Paintings by Seven Artists; Four Ink Painters; Ink, Dots, and Lines; and Forms of Ink. Such a trend began to be called the “ink painting movement” by being inspired by the preface written by You Hongjune included in the catalogue of Today’s Ink Painting. In his preface “The True Meaning of the Contemporary Ink Wash Painting Movement,” You suggested calling the new movement that emerged in the 1980s by young artists “the ink wash painting movement.” This exhibition concretized the ideology of the ink wash painting movement, which was also adopted as the name of the new movement and served as an opportunity to gain a stronger momentum for the ink painting movement.
* Source: MMCA

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