During a severe famine in the 1990s he fled to South Korea where he works as a painter. AS: Sun Mu’s paintings are inspired by the propaganda images of his homeland, but he questions their content and ideological messages.
Korea recently celebrated the 70th anniversary of liberation from Japanese colonial rule. Mu Sun means “no line” which reflects the hope that someday there will be no line separating the two Koreas. Sun Mu was not unlike any other child growing up in the DPRK. In 1998, he escaped over the border into China, finally arriving in South Korea in 2002. Under the country’s National Security Law, praising North Korea is a crime, and Sun Mu’s art has stoked controversy from the very beginning. Sun Mu has been described as “South Korean by appearance, North Korean by heart.” The painting of South Korean President Park Geun-hye and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un surrounded by […] It not only represents what he feels is the transcendence of art but also the literal military demarcation line that keeps the Korean people separated. The life and work of North Korean defector turned political pop artist Sun Mu. Later he studied art in college. Sun Mu fled North Korea in 1998 and produces art critical of the regime from Seoul.
SUN MU. This is a complete list of paintings by Edvard Munch (Norwegian pronunciation: , 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) a Norwegian symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art.His best-known composition, The Scream (1893), is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia and anxiety.
He worked as a propaganda artist in North Korea before fleeing to South Korea in the 1990s. Today most of his paintings are parodies of the propaganda he painted in the North. In 2015, North Korean defector and artist Sun Mu (a pseudonym that means “No Borders”) painted Kim Jong-un against an azure sky. Trained as a propaganda-poster artist, he continues to work in the style in which he once glorified the North Korean army and state leaders, ironically turning propagandistic messages on … He is standing in front of his 2010 depiction of unconditional conformity titled, Scenery.
Sun Mu was born in North Korea, where his artistic talent was recognised at a young age.
Sun Mu is a Korean painter. Більше цікавих робіт цього художника шукайте в найкращій … Sun Mu Painting | Culture Trip Though the punishment is less severe, the freedom Sun Mu has to express himself through art is still limited in South Korea. Sun Mu’s name means “no boundary” between North Korea and South Korea. As a child, he was picked to perform at Pyongyang Palace as part of the country’s annual New Year’s celebrations, where children sing, write, and paint for the North Korean leader. What started as a small construction project in the early 1950s developed into a 10-acre National Historic District designed and built by acclaimed Arizona artist Ettore “Ted” DeGrazia.The Gallery in the Sun Museum has six permanent collections of paintings that trace historical events and native cultures of … Directed by Adam Sjöberg. The name Sun Mu is the reverse of Mu Sun, a pseudonym proposed for him by South Korean artist Lee Yong-baek. A sort of freedom that the ruthless dictator of his homeland wouldn’t leave unpunished – if only he knew who Sun Mu is. Sun Mu was born in North Korea, where his artistic talent was recognised at a young age. It’s a nom de plume that uses a combination of two Korean words that translate to ‘The Absence of Borders’. Political art “I am Sun Mu”: the precarious existence of a North Korean satirical artist. By age 12, Sun Mu was chosen to receive special guidance from his elementary school’s art teacher, who he lived with for six months at the school. Sun Mu народився в c. 1972 році Видатна фігура напрямку ‘Соціалістичний реалізм’ и ‘Поп-арт’. On the latest edition of Outlook you can hear from North Korean artist Sun Mu who was trained to paint propaganda glorifying the regime from a young age.
Sun Mu recalls drawing pictures of flowers and bamboo trees as a child.
An artist who fled the DPRK in the 1990s, he now draws political pop art which hopes to reflect the tragic situation of a divided Korean peninsula. He recently managed to get his paintings back from the Chinese authorities. A friend of Sun Mu says, “if reunification were to happen, I think it would resemble Sun Mu’s paintings.” They have a clear mix of both North and South Korean style culture as well as Western influence.