This study focuses on the color dot paintings of Kwak In-sik (1919-1988), a Mono-ha artist active from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s, and in order to shed light on his artistic world, the researcher deals with the thought and idea of Gilles Deleuze ...
This study focuses on the color dot paintings of Kwak In-sik (1919-1988), a Mono-ha artist active from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s, and in order to shed light on his artistic world, the researcher deals with the thought and idea of Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), a contemporary French philosopher who lived in the same era and asked similar questions about the times. They each ask existential questions about ‘time’ through their own language and logic. They present propositions such as how to signify time and lead history to practice, what other sources and forms of time are for history beyond the narrow and representational concept of time, and how history actually moves and what forms and systems it has. Deleuze’s difference and manifold are revealed to Kwak In-sik through the color dot painting technique, and through the form of self-negation, he asks fundamental questions about ‘what is freedom’. The attempt to interpret Kwak In-sik's artistic world in a Deleuzian manner is significant in that it enriches the interpretation of his artistic world, which has not been sufficiently studied despite its importance in art history.