Go Hui-dong

Infobox Korean name


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caption=Self-portrait of Go Hui-Dong in 1915
hangul=고희동
hanja=高羲東
rr=Go Hui-dong
mr=Ko Hǔi-dong

Go Hui-dong, also known by the pen name Chun-gok (1886-1965), was the first Korean painter to adopt Western styles. He spent most of his life in Seoul. He studied French there from 1899 to 1903 and briefly took a post with the Korean government. Leaving the post in 1905, he studied Korean painting for several years and then traveled to Japan, where he studied Western-style painting under Kuroda Seiki from 1909 to 1915. He returned to Korea in 1915 and sought to fuse traditional and Korean styles.

External links

* [http://www.artnet.com/library/04/0471/T047149.asp Artnet profile]