Chang Ucchin Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

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Chang Ucchin was born on 26 November, 1917. Discover Chang Ucchin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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In April 2014, The Chang Ucchin Foundation unveiled the Chang Ucchin Museum of Art, built in collaboration with the city of Yangju. The museum houses 362 pieces of Chang's artworks.

Chang Ucchin also travelled to the United States in 1982 where he held an exhibition of a few of his oil paintings, silk screens, etchings, and ink paintings, and again to Europe in 1983 and held a prints exhibition in Paris.

In 1980, Chang Ucchin set up his studio at Suanbo, Chungcheong-do Province from his Seoul family home at Myeongryundong. During this period, he produced a large volume of works, hinting to the stabilisation of his artistic style as he reached his late 60s and 70s. The theme of his paintings also reflected his age and paintings like Sigoljip (시골집, House in the Countryside, 1980) was elaborative of his loneliness as he awaited for his children's return.

From the 1980s, Chang Ucchin's works began to show stronger Eastern influence in both his painting style and materials used. For instance, he used elements of traditional literati ink paintings and minhwa (민화, 民畵, folk painting), and even used ink brushes instead of oil brushes to amplify the translucent appearance of ink on canvas.

He also continued to experiment with new media. In addition to oil painting, he tried various formative practices such as marker pen drawing, Chinese ink painting, painting on pottery, silkscreen, copperplate print, and wood-block print. In particular, Chang Ucchin began to produce many ink paintings from 1979 and the depiction of trees that were typically round in earlier periods began to be shown in irregular forms, reflecting his continuous experimentation with form, pattern, and style.

Some of his paintings during this period depict people and facial expressions in a humorous and childlike manner, in contrast to the highly abstract and simplified shape of people and children during his stay at Deokso. For instance, Yeoinsang (여인상, Image of a Woman, 1979) depicts a woman standing in a timid pose with enlarged bare feet on the ground. Her facial features are exaggerated but is cheerful and bright, much like the peaceful and colurful background that contains a dirt road that leads to a village of houses, a sun at the centre of the sky, a bird and a dog. The image is reflective of Chang Ucchin's affection of people, nature, and a pastoral life.

Chang Ucchin also wrote several short writings for newspapers and magazines, and later collated these to an essay collection titled Gang-ga ui ateullie (강가의 아틀리에, Atelier by the River, 1976).

He depicted scenery surrounding him, his neighbors, and themes related to Buddhism. Chang Ucchin was raised in a Buddhist family and incorporated his beliefs into his paintings by choosing to use simple lines rather than elaborate brushstrokes as a way to express his pursuit of perpetual Buddhist enlightenment and studying the essence of all things in life. He was also inspired by his wife who read Buddhist scriptures and produced a series of her portraits, including Jinjinmyo (진진묘, 眞眞妙, 1970), titled after his wife's Buddhist name.

After resigning his post at Seoul National University, Chang Ucchin moved to Deokso, Gyeong-gi-do Province, a small riverside village past the outskirts of Seoul in 1963. Living alone, he produced many works that depicted nature, animals, and people. His paintings of the Deokso period reflect his affection of nature and people surrounded by nature, and begin to show stronger brushstrokes and simplified geometric shapes.

He became a professor of fine arts at Seoul National University in 1954, but resigned to paint full-time from 1960.

During and after the Korean War, Chang Ucchin made use of the limited resources he had and produced several key works such as his self portrait, Boribat (보리밭, Barley Field, 1951), and Narutbae (나룻배, Ferry, 1951), of which the latter was painted behind Chang Ucchin's own beloved piece, Sonyeo (소녀, Girl, 1939) as he could not access canvases easily after the war. His years in refuge at Busan during the war was the only time cityscapes appear in his paintings. For instance, he painted clusters of houses in the city, as well as a car, bicycle, and Western-style house in Jadongcha ga itneun pung-gyeong (자동차가 있는 풍경, A View with a Car, 1953).

From 1948 to 1952, he participated in group exhibitions of the New Realism Group (Sinsasilpa, 신사실파, 新寫實派) with fellow members such as Kim Whanki, Yoo Youngkuk, Lee Kyu-sang (이규상, 李揆祥, 1918–1964). The New Realism Group was focused on re-examining the direction of Korean modern and contemporary art by experimenting with new aesthetics and forms, as well as incorporating newly translated Korean traditions to modern elements.

After liberation in 1945, Chang Ucchin briefly worked for the National Museum of Korea until 1947 where he was able to learn about traditional Korean art and was inspired by traditional paintings, woodworks, and crafts.

Chang Ucchin (장욱진, 張旭鎭, 26 November 1917 – 27 December 1990) was one of the most representative modern Korean artists. He was known for his oil paintings that depicted Korean sceneries, animals, and children in simple and naive painting styles.

Chang Ucchin was born in South Chungcheong Province in 1917 when Korea was still under Japanese colonial rule. After his father's death, he moved to Seoul where his aunt became his guardian. Although his aunt was against Chang Ucchin's art education and career, he was granted her permission to pursue a career in art after winning first place in a national student art contest hosted by Joseon ilbo in 1938 with his painting Gong-gi nori (공기놀이, Game of Jackstones). He studied oil painting at Tokyo's Teikoku Art School (帝国美術学校) from 1939 to 1944. In Tokyo, he was able to receive a relatively progressive style of painting compared to the conservative and academic style taught in Tokyo Fine Arts School.