John-Rountree

 I chose to do my exhibit as a comparison of pre and post-war Korean Art.  I find it interesting how easily Western countries can influence things in other countries while Western influence has no effect on other things. Pre-war Korean art was heavily influenced by Japanese art.  As you can see in Calla by Lee In-sung in 1932  pictured above.  In this oil painting, you can see the vibrant use of color that has a sort of hazy-like feature with some of the blurred and shaded lines. Pictured below we have some of the Goguryeo Murals.  At first glance at some of these murals, you may see Japanese emperors and Samurai but these are located in a tomb in Northern Korea during a prosperous Korean time period Post-War Korean Art (Minjung Art or the People's Art Movement of the 1970s & 80s) This art movement was brought on by an impending uprising of the people looking to bring democracy to South Korea.  Later on in the 80s came to be a founded art group called Reality and Utterance.   A

The above painting is Wham by Roy Lichtenstein painted in 1963 and first put on exhibit in New York.  This work looks like it is derived from a comic with the plane on one side firing a missile that strikes another plane on the other side.  Lichtenstein used a DC Comic for inspiration on this piece.  He uses reds and yellows to highlight the explosion with the words in yellow looking like it came from the center of the explosion.  Looking at Lichtenstein's painting below titled Blam painted in 1962 you can see that his art tends to resemble comic strips.  There is some controversy with some of his work and plagiarism since most of his art heavily resembles already printed comics. Next, we have the above on top from the famous Andy Warhol Gold Marilyn Monroe (1962).  This is likely one of the most iconic paintings of this era.  Warhol was heavily into pop culture as you can see from the painting titled Coca-Cola (1962) directly under that one.  Warhol used black and white to create