Yun Hyong-keun

One of the most significant Korean artists of the twentieth century, Yun Hyong-keun (1928–2007) was born in Miwon, North Chungcheong Province, Korea, and received his BFA from the School of Fine Arts at Hongik University, Seoul, in 1957. During the 1960s, he became associated with the influential Dansaekhwa (monochromatic painting) movement of Korean artists who experimented with the physical properties of painting and prioritized technique and process. The scarcity of materials following the Korean War (1950–1953) and the country’s relative isolation from the international art world led the artists to construct their own sets of rules and structures in relation to abstraction.