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Jea-Oh Na,Beautiful Korea-Angry Nojang (Mask), Computer Print, 30 x 30, 2006
 
     
 

 

 

A corrupt monk who has facial expressions that are full of all sorts of impurities, pains, despairs, hopes, and so on, of this present world -It is the Yangjubeyolsan Great Elderly Mask. It appears that this mask opens its big bright eyes horribly like google eyes and its mouth torn up to below ears is filled with wraths, but if you continue to see and become familiar with it as times pass, this mask seems to have pure and simple expressions. The profound and also sweet-flavored elderly image, on which the static and dynamic properties and simultaneously the coldness and warmness are crossed each other, has been experimented in terms of the modern view.

 
     
 
  Jae-Oh Na
Jae-Oh Na was born in Seocheon, Korea in 1945. He studied at Hong-Ik University with a major in Graphic Design. In 1971, he held his first private exhibition titled <The Beauty of Korea>. In a total of three exhibitions so far, he has been displaying works with a focus on Korean Motifs. He produced numerous works with Korean Motifs, such as Bune, the cultural poster for 1988 Seoul Olympic Games and <Korean Beauty Series>, the postage stamp design, etc. From 1982, he has been a professor in the Department of Visual Communication Design, School of Arts and Design in Dankook Universtiy. He also served as the first Dean of the Graduate School of Design.
 
     
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