Whanki Kim

Infobox Korean name


caption=
hangul=김환기
hanja=金煥基
rr=Gim Hwan Gi
mr=Kim Whan Ki
hangulho=수화
hanjaho=樹話
rrho=Suhwa
mrho=|

Kim Hwan-gi (1913 February 27 - 1974 July 25) was a pioneer and leading abstract artist of South Korea.*Cite web|title=Kim Hwan-gi |url=http://www.answers.com/topic/kim-hwan-gi-1 |author=Answers.com. The Concise Grove Dictionary of Ar |publisher=t Oxford University Press, Inc. |language= accessdate=2007-12-09|]

Biography

Kim Hwan-gi was born in 1913 as the son of a wealthy shipowner in Eupdong-ri, Anjwa-myeon, Sinan County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea. He got secondary school education and entered an art department of a university in Japan.

References

*Cite book
title=Korea:A Historical a Cultural Dictionary
url= http://books.google.com/books?id=vj8ShHzUxrYC&pg=PA212&lpg=PA212&dq=kim+hwan+gi+painter&source=web&ots=4wIWOFeMo1&sig=yL0Sa4KK3SzH8jTiy0g-u_nL2TA#PPA212,M1
author=Keith Pratt
coauthors=Richard Rutt, Jamese Hoare
year = 1999
publisher=Curzon
page=212-213p
isbn= 0700704647|

External links

* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n10_v34/ai_18533873 Kim Whanki - exhibit at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts] at ArtForum, Summer, 1996 by Barry Schwabsky
*ko icon [http://www.moca.go.kr:9001/unisql/dispatcher/Modern/modern1/search/artist/artist_artwork.html?artist_oid=@8592|5|1# Detail information about Kim Hwan-gi and his works] at National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
* [http://english.tour2korea.com/03Sightseeing/DestinationsByThemes/Depth04.asp?sight=Culture&sightseeing_id=69&ADDRESS_1=6142&ADDRESS_2=5540&ThemeCode=Culture_3&kosm=m3_2 Information about The Hwangi Art Museum]