Yoon Kwang-cho
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| Revised Romanization | Yun Gwang-jo |
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Yoon Kwang-cho (
South Korean ceramic artist
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His works have been shown at the
Royal Museum of Mariemont and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
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In 2004, he won the "Artist of the Year" award from the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, for his significant contribution to the development of Korean contemporary ceramic art. In 2008, he was given the Kyung-Ahm Prize. His studio is in Gyeongju, South Korea.
Style and nature of his work
Yoon specializes in his own variants on the traditional Korean ceramic style called buncheong. He has modified this style, using angular shapes decorated with brushwork in white. He often represents aspects of Kyongju in his work.
Biography
Yoon Kwang-cho was born in
(an age-old center for Korean ceramics), becoming inspired to work in the traditional Korean pottery known as buncheong.See also
- List of Korean ceramic artists and sculptors
- Korean ceramics
References
External links
- Profile, in Korean and English
- https://web.archive.org/web/20050211213630/http://www.artsbma.org/koreanceramicspr.htm
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