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張旭鎭 jang ukjin chang ucchin
 chang ukchin 장욱진
chang ucchin

chang ucchin -lrb- 26 november 1917 -- 27 december 1990 -rrb- is one of representatives of modern korean fine art .
chang was born when korea was still under japanese colonial rule .
he studied western art at tokyo 's imperial school of art .
he became a professor of fine arts at seoul national university in 1954 , but resigned to paint full-time from 1960 .
chang ucchin is one of the representatives of modern korean fine art .
he effects a unique way in painting routine objects familiar to all koreans such as children , magpies , the sun , and the moon .
in the midst of the current of western modernism , he developed his own style of painting by investigating and experimenting .
in addition to oil painting , he tried various formative practices such as marker pen drawing , chinese ink painting , painting on pottery , silkscreen , copperplate print , and wood-block print .
he depicted scenery surrounding him , his neighbors , and themes related to buddhism , as if a child seeing them with clear eyes .
