Thoughts of The Times; Social Pioneer - Painter Na Hae-sok.

From: Korea Times (Seoul, Korea) | Date: February 15, 2000 | Copyright information

The artist Na Hae-sok was a Korean social pioneer who is honored this month as one of Korea's outstanding cultural figures. An exhibition featuring her life and work was recently held at the Seoul Fine Arts Center. I have been especially attracted to Na Hae-sok's artistic genius since I was a young student. My father, who was a pioneer of Korean archeology, owned one of her oil paintings, a beautiful Korean landscape. He told me that Na painted it during her residence at a Buddhist...

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