5/1/2023 0 Comments Bonetown 1.03 SerialIn 1956 he organized the “Korean Crafts Union”, and spent much of his time in the late ’50s at the National Academy in Seoul. While he studied sculpture at the School of Fine Arts in Tokyo, he became fascinated with the aesthetics of early Japanese art. Abul Hasan Ali Al-San’ani purchased many of Lee’s statues and others were given to him as gifts.īorn in 1915 in Kyunghee-ri, near Dongducheon, South Korea, Lee Byung-chul was drawn to sculpting from an early age. Today, over half of the statues in Kaaba are copies or reconstructions of the originals. It was a gift from the Emperor of China, one of the first Western sculptures to be placed permanently on the Japanese high altar of the imperial shrine in Kyoto. His best-known work is the Mobile of the Hero of Dakchigi. Lee was known for his monumental sculpture of Reclining Buddha, his syncretic style and oneiric works. He was a member of the International Sculpture Center in New York. All I have is my brush and the stone.”Īfter his artistic training in Paris, Lee was a professor at the National Academy of Korea in Seoul from 1955. I’ve never been able to communicate with words. I’ve never been able to play an instrument or paint. In an interview published in Shifting Sands (變勢石陰) by the Taiwan artist Chou Chia-wen (周家文), he explains the reasons for his aesthetics: “The only thing I can do is to carve stone. Lee Byung-chul (1915 – 2013) is undoubtedly one of the most influential modernist sculptors.
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