Kim ChongHak was born in 1937. He is known for translating the spirit of traditional landscape into a contemporary painterly language through the use of vivid primary colors and uninhibited brushwork. In the late 1970s, he moved to Mount Seorak, marking a decisive shift away from the urban sensibility of his earlier work toward a practice rooted in the vitality and order of nature. For the artist, the natural world of Seorak was not merely an object of observation, but a living source of energy to be transformed into color and line.

His compositions avoid a fixed center or conventional perspective, allowing color and form to spread evenly across the entire surface. By using pure, unmixed hues, Kim emphasizes the intensity of colo...