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1913–1974

Kim Whanki was a Korean painter and pioneering abstract artist who lived and worked in Japan, Korea, France and the United States. A first-generation Korean abstract artist, he combined abstraction with oriental concepts and ideals and a Korean lyrical sensibility. His early semi-abstract paintings gave way to works of lines and spaces, and his style developed from geometric abstraction to traditional Korean motifs and monochrome paintings of dots and lines. He was a pioneer of abstract painting and is described as the godfather of the Dansaekhwa movement.