Gogh-Starry Starry Night - Lee Bae

Gogh-Starry Starry Night

2020-2022 Acrylic, Oil on linen 71.2 x 89.3 in

Provenance

Artist Collection, 2023

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibition, "Pen, Library, Funkchestra: Play of Desire, Order, Sense", A gallery, Seoul, Korea, 2023

About The Work

In the artist’s ‘Funkchestra’ series, there is a representative of each artistic genre. From Michael Jackson to John Lennon, Prince, Madonna, Audrey Hepburn, BTS, and many other pop stars. In “Gogh-Starry Starry Night,” the work is centered around Van Gogh, a representative of Impressionism and considered one of the greatest painters in the history of Western art.

He divided the different parts of Gogh’s self-portrait into equally sized fan shapes and drew repeated and symmetrical patterns around them. These patterns have a sense of rhyme and rhythm and serve as the musical element of Hong’s paintings.

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