Classics on Colourful High by Lee Sol

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Recently booked by Vogue Korea young artist Lee Sol burst his Instagram account in eye-killing colours of rendered classic sculptures froze still in a madness surreal dance. The vivid palette and high definition render makes his art stand out and captivate. Follow him now on @venusmansion

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Ceramic Sculptures by Haejin Lee

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"Ceramicist Haejin Lee (Instagram) creates sculptures that seem to unravel before your eyes, ceramic forms that open and splay outwards to make vessels unusable and faces far more interesting. Utilizing minimal color Lee instead focuses on her shapeshifting creations, often incorporating human elements like eyes and mouths that sprout from the banded chaos."

via Colossal

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Hand-carved Portraits by Yoo Hyun

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Using an X-acto knife and tweezers, Korean artist Yoo Hyun (Instagram) hand carves intricate cut-paper portraits that feature the likes of movie stars, world leaders, and musicians. Up close, Hyun’s pieces look like abstract designs, but from afar they read as photo-realistic depictions of his subjects. He achieves this by incorporating a zig-zag pattern into his compositions, where each line is specially cut to build a three dimensional-looking form.

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Live Digital Painting by Seok Jeong Hyeon

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Korean digital artist Seok Jeong Hyeon (석정현) shows off his enormous skills in one video depicting the process of speed drawing a whole live of a woman. Amazing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCddlkIlTbI

And here are some of his artworks worth to admire

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Sea Hyun Lee: Between Red

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This blood-orange land on oil canvases by Sea Hyun Lee is actually a mountains from the border between North ans South Korea. Union Gallery, what represents the author, describe the paintings as

Deeply personal works that reference Lee’s own sense of the past and its losses. Here, Lee tarries with two familiar ideas: nostalgia and utopia. But he avoids approaching either with mere simplicity or mere skepticism. Instead, his paintings are infused with a sophisticated sense of nostalgia, and a wry idea of utopia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=W5aSYPFM1P8

Fotolia TEN 2013: Soongyu Gwon

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Following the success of the 1st Season, Fotolia launches the 2 nd edition of the TEN Project, a creative, digital and educational event. Today Fotolia introduces Soongyu Gwon, the second digital artist of TEN, Season 2. After Argentinean Gustavo Brigante, Korean artist Soongyu Gwon unveils his digital creation, which will be available for free download in PSD format for 24 hours, on Friday, February 8th, on www.tenbyfotolia.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQn6zeJwmYM

A personal artwork, with Asian influences

Forever a passionate for art and design, Soongyu Gwon, who works as a Creation Director at D.FY Inc. Design Group in Seoul (South Korea), defines himself as a «digital image maker». The work and style of this man, who is above all in search of the deep meaning of things, materialize in his ultra-graphic, perfectly mastered works. Inspired and enriched with the 5,000 year-old Korean history, as well as with the traditional asian culture, close to Nature, his compositions also show the influence of contemporary arts: comics, fantastic and horror movies are Soongyu Gwon’s favorite genres, since he saw Peter Jackson’s “Dead Alive” in high.

Unleash Imagination

“TEN, Season 2 was an opportunity to conceive a work without compromise, nor constraint, and to give free rein to my imagination”. Indeed, his artwork, entitled « Kentauros », which blends Greek mythology with fantasy, detonates and surprises. According to Soongyu Gwon : «Creativity is not about inventing what doesn’t exist, but about seeing in a new way what already does». He therefore doesn’t hesitate to represant the horseman (Centaur), famous for his brutality, as a pale and frail young girl : «I found the perfect young girl image on Fotolia. I replaced her legs with those of a foal, rather than those of a horse, to emphasize her fragility. The presence of crows increases tension, and generates fear. The dead tree branches create a protection around the Centaur. The three moons in the sky lend a fantastic atmosphere to the whole. I finished with adjusting the colours tone, and added some blue tone, to make the cold feel».

Valorize each particularity

Photography is Soongyu’s first choice raw material : «I spend a lot of time choosing an image, from which I emphasize the atmosphere and specificity, as they are in the original work, without special effects.». During the next months, he intends to learn working in 3D : «I can improve my ability to express my ideas through this powerful tool». The best is yet to come! By taking part in the TEN project, Soongyu Gwon opens a window on the world : «I admit I hesitated before entering the project, not being sure I’d have time to conciliate the making of this project with my clients’expectations. In the ended, I dived, because I very much want to show my work beyond the borders of my country».

Download PSD on 8 February

Made by Humans by Universal Everything

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Universal Everything was commissioned by Hyuindai to create an interactive wall in Hyunday Vision Hall HQ South Korea. Check the video in the post within fresh interview with UE founder Matt Pyke arranged by The Creators Project. And the interview coincides with the launch of the new Universal Everything website which is always worth a revisit. Check out their new showreel as well.

http://vimeo.com/52025659

Interview with UE' Matt Pyke by The Creators Project http://vimeo.com/52057332

Universal Everything Showreel http://vimeo.com/30795426

Ho Ryon Lee art

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"Overlapping Images" is a series of works from Korean artist Ho Ryon Lee. "In his painting, the texture of photography has been used and reproduced –we can define such style as a photo-like picture(photorealism). In reality, the artist took several photos of the model standing in a specific pose. The photos are then composed together via Photoshop, and the finalized product is painted on canvas."