Hyunmin Sung
Prof. Kyle Brebner
IERW (03)
11 November 2015
Fall into Music, Flutter
If you see yourself right now, aren’t
there something familiar in your ears? A music and earphone are our daily life.
If you see Feign: Flutter, which is
one of my favorite paintings, you can sympathize with what the artist is trying
to say. This art was drawn by a Korean modern artist, Hyunjung Kim in 2013. She
made different and various works of art under a title, “Feign Story,” and Flutter is one of them. In this essay, Flutter would be introduced through description, some background details, interpretation, and evaluation.
As
appreciating arts without any background information makes people think more,
before depicting the details, the description would materialize the picture. A beautifully
pigtailed girl wearing a purple, graceful Hanbok,
which is Korean traditional clothes, is facing the side and wearing headphones
with her eyes quietly closed. The white headphone is contemporary and famous
one, branded “b” for ‘beats by dr.dre.’ On her head, six different,
specially-looking animals are surrounding her in a semicircle. From the left, a
purple hippopotamus is largely opening its mouth with lots of books; a black
and white striped zebra with one green antler and the other one in red has put
a pink eyeliner; a grey elephant has worn many colorful earrings on both its ears;
a white polar bear wearing a Korean traditional hat, which a prince wore,
carries a red grasshopper on its back; a pink squirrel with a black ribbon tie
is eating something; and lastly an alligator with its mouth opened a little has
a pretty colorful butterfly seat on its teeth.
Based
on the portrayal, to understand the art better, fine points that the artist
wants to tell can largely be divided into two; total background and the
specific art, Flutter. The big, outer
frame of Flutter, “Story of Feign” shows informal everyday
life with figures wearing Hanbok. The
point that Hyunjung Kim intended here is a contradiction between “informal”
life and the “elegant and secret” characteristic of Hanbok. She firstly draws a figure in the nude, and goes through
the step of dressing the figure in Hanbok.
She dyes thin Hanji, which is
traditional Korean paper, in person to effectively express Hanbok in a ‘translucent’ way. This makes her message ‘one can see
what is underneath the dress’ clearer. Under the theme, Flutter is the real picture I want to introduce. The motive came
from Kim’s experience in everyday life. She loves to listen to music because
she becomes stabilized emotionally, and can get intense energy while listening.
She focused on the feeling of being in a different world as a main character in
a movie as soon as she puts on earphones. As there are no restrictions in the
world of imagination, infinite and limitless thoughts ignite people to heart
plunge. What she believes is that music is more than mere auditory stimuli, and
some powerful energy is made which takes her to certain spaces or connects to
certain time. This touching and flutter feeling of music has connection with
art in that art can also go beyond time and space through visual stimuli. She
wishes people to be moved and fluttered by these works.[1]
To
add how I interpreted, Flutter seemed
friendly but new, and at the same time gave me a chance to flash back. The
combination of Hanbok and the headphone, which is a discriminative harmony of
traditional and contemporary, and the peculiar animals around the girl’s head, which
flashes on something imaginary, were interesting. She used familiar elements in
a novel way. With this basic consideration in mind, I read the title of the
piece and tried to puzzle them in my own way. I naturally knew that the girl is
fluttering while hearing music as it drives her fantasy fly everywhere because
I have experienced it. In addition, as people with their headphone or earphone
on are the most common scenery from subways to airplanes, many people these
days should also have went through. By appreciating music, they can gain
energetic motives and healing while being in just one self’s secret area
regardless of how the world goes around. This also can be enjoyed
through an indirect experience by watching some music movies such as ‘Begin Again.’ In short, I thought it
was familiar and fresh, and felt the similar way as the artist tried to speak;
music has an immense power that moves people.
Kim’s
art is reflective of society and Korean but easy, which suits my artistic
taste. Her overall works of art are reflective of our modern daily life so that
all can sympathize and agree with it. People can feel what the girl in the
picture is feeling. It is because most have experienced being in a totally
disparate place, which might be free or exciting, while listening to the music
regardless of places in their daily life. Furthermore, I sensed another allure
in the touting of our heritage, Hanbok.
The reason is not only the glamor that drums up worldwide attention but also
the beautiful mind of Kim. As I like things that have a purpose to spread
Korean culture and tradition, the presentation of our historical clothes through
art is luring enough. This also promotes awareness intensively at the point
that Kim is a modern artist. Besides, compared to other abstractive or overly
subjective arts, her works are portrayed simple, frank, and straightforward.
Therefore, it is easy to understand what the artist is trying to say. These
demonstrate that implicit communication occurs between the artist and the
spectator in her artworks.
In
conclusion, Flutter shows music
contains an impressive power to let people’s fantasy run wild and throw people
in a different place of ones’ own. The magnetic factors of the art come from
reflecting and Korean but easy attributes. Considering the artistic point with
our lives, as modern people have close association with music or arts, people
should arrange their time to feel liveness sensing the flutter by appreciating them.
Once a while, step out from the busy, stressful and competing society and concentrate
on music deeply, not just enjoying and touching the next button. You all can be
anyone in anyplace you want right now, just by plugging in earphone in your
ears. Feel your heart and your own breath.
Nice job! You made some good improvements by correcting mistakes and clarifying some points.
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