Min Kyung Kwon – Surrealism Today https://surrealismtoday.com Contemporary surreal, visionary and pop surreal art Thu, 24 Aug 2023 13:09:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://media.surrealismtoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/12202037/cropped-surrealism-today-favicon-556e0c04v1_site_icon-256x256-32x32.png Min Kyung Kwon – Surrealism Today https://surrealismtoday.com 32 32 218978170 Paradox https://surrealismtoday.com/shop/min-kyung-kwon/paradox/ Thu, 23 Dec 2021 13:44:25 +0000 https://surrealismtoday.com/shop/uncategorized/paradox/ Paradox

Series: Resurrection
Year: 2017

Paradox was inspired by the Bootstrap paradox theory a theoretical paradox of time travel that occurs when an object or piece of information sent back in time becomes trapped within an infinite cause-effect loop in which the item no longer has a discernible point of origin, and is said to be “uncaused” or “self-created”

*This work was exhibited at Hive art gallery for its anniversary group show in 2017 named “Best of the Hive Show”. Also it was invited for “CARDED!” show for Hot Art Wet City gallery Vancouver in the same year.

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Original Innocence https://surrealismtoday.com/shop/min-kyung-kwon/original-innocence/ Thu, 23 Dec 2021 13:33:09 +0000 https://surrealismtoday.com/shop/uncategorized/original-innocence/ Original Innocence

Series: Resurrection
Year: 2017

This piece is about our long-lost connection to our mind as a whole. Even though we live in a world where we often feel separate and lonely, those feelings are actually coming from our ignorant mind (Original Ignorance) that we see ourselves only as physical beings. However, by traveling into our deep state of mind we get to a place where we have never been separated.

Min Kyung Kwon’s art is in the genre of pop surrealism – fantasy meeting reality from the worlds that reside within the subconscious. A juxtaposition of dualities: life, and death; love and hate; beauty and repulsiveness; sweet and sexy contrasting the ghoulish and strange.

In this painting a beautiful lady maybe a princess is sitting on her throne surrounded by the cute and the not so cute.

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Diabolica https://surrealismtoday.com/shop/min-kyung-kwon/diabolica/ Thu, 23 Dec 2021 13:21:42 +0000 https://surrealismtoday.com/shop/uncategorized/diabolica/ Diabolica

Series: G.H.O.S.T.
Year: 2019

Diabolica (Idolomantis diabolical, a.k.a., the devil’s flower mantis) was inspired by African mythology. A unique characteristic of the mantis is that the female kills and eats the male after he has impregnated her. In myth, Mantis personifies the concept that creation is not only birth but death as well and that through death, life is renewed. Myths about Mantis often reveal him as a shapeshifter. Mantis is the most beloved incarnation of the San Creator god Kaggen. Kaggen could transform himself into any animal form, but the forms of the mantis and the eland (a type of antelope) were his favorite. In one myth, Eland was the well-loved first son of Mantis, who wept when Eland was killed. This myth taught the San to honor the death of an Eland, their master animal.

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Widow https://surrealismtoday.com/shop/min-kyung-kwon/widow/ Thu, 23 Dec 2021 13:17:46 +0000 https://surrealismtoday.com/shop/uncategorized/widow/ Widow

Series: G.H.O.S.T.
Year: 2019

The widow was inspired by Arachne, (Greek: “Spider”) in Greek mythology, the daughter of Idmon of Colophon in Lydia, a dyer in purple. Arachne was a weaver who acquired such skill in her art that she ventured to challenge Athena, goddess of war, handicraft, and practical reason. The image of a girl looking through a purple fog came to my mind from the story. It would be a highly intuitive soul with wisdom in her deep purple eyes. She expresses her world through myriad spider webs with magnificent patterns and ever-changing abstraction

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Siren https://surrealismtoday.com/shop/min-kyung-kwon/siren/ Thu, 23 Dec 2021 13:12:11 +0000 https://surrealismtoday.com/shop/uncategorized/siren/ Siren

Series: G.H.O.S.T.
Year: 2019

Siren was created based upon Greek mythology, the Sirens (Greek singular: Σειρήν Seirēn). Sirens were dangerous creatures, who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and singing voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island. Roman poets placed them on some small islands called Sirenum scopuli. The vision I saw from the story was a beautiful young female who was heartbroken by someone she loved once and now all she has is the feelings of vengeance. Will she ever feel love again? Or will she always be a fearful spirit who would curse and destroy someone?

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Dawn https://surrealismtoday.com/shop/min-kyung-kwon/dawn/ Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:55:34 +0000 https://surrealismtoday.com/shop/uncategorized/dawn/ Dawn

Series: G.H.O.S.T.
Year: 2019

Dawn was inspired and created by Greco-Roman mythology Eos(Greek) the personification of the dawn. According to the Greek poet Hesiod’s Theogony, She was the daughter of the Titan Hyperion and the Titaness Theia and sister of Helios, the sun god, and Selene, the moon goddess. Dawn is a visualization of a female goddess who brings hope at the end of a dark tunnel. Her serenity makes the world feel more peaceful and calm.

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The Forest of Illusion https://surrealismtoday.com/shop/min-kyung-kwon/the-forest-of-illusion/ Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:31:05 +0000 https://surrealismtoday.com/shop/uncategorized/the-forest-of-illusion/ The Forest of Illusion

Series: Resurrection
Year: 2017

This work was created by the idea of non-linear time & space in which one experiences a number of parallel universes at the same time. Here, one exists as everything – the whole. This green forest with a clear blue sky seems beautiful and peaceful on the outside however it’s full of codes hidden everywhere. What would happen if anyone tries to break out of the codes and free herself? Or is the whole thing just an illusion or dream?

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