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ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.28 pp.253-268
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2007.28.253

Poet-Painters: Yeats, Picasso, and Kim Hongdo

Rhee Young Suck

Abstract

The paper analyzes three artists by looking into their art works; Kim Hongdoand Picasso and Yeats. Kim is the greatest painter Korea has ever seen in history,and Picasso is the greatest painter of the last century, whereas Yeats is the 20thcentury greatest poet. What they have in common is the literati painting in them.The first two were painters, well versed in poetry. Kim did not create poems, butpoems in pictorial images; the best paintings were created toward the end of hislife, after a life-long effort to perfect his strokes in calligraphy. His three-pauseexecution of a stroke is the key to his perfection of his art. When it reaches thelimit of perfection in art, its strokes resemble nothing in the world, an astoundingfeat in art. The effect the sum of strokes makes in a work of his is tantamount tothe pure abstraction of soul in Yeats's supreme poetry, and to the pure abstraction,or the pure form of Picasso's painting. It is quite natural that the pure abstraction inPicasso evokes the most beautiful sentiment toward the whole humanity. Picasso'ssecret to his great art must be his literati temperament in art.

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