Yun Hyong-keun places the canvas on the floor and repeats the process of applying and drying paint diluted in oil. The works from the 70s and the 80s show two or three widely standing pillars that are strongly bled into the canvas. Then in the 90s, the pillars had a cleaner edge and the color changed from burnt umber to pitch black. His humble artworks are closely linked with biography, social surroundings, and artistic viewpoint. Yun Hyong-keun, born in Cheongju in 1928, lived through a tumultuous period when the Korean War and the Yusin regime were in power. He responded to the challenging reality by not directly confronting it but through his paintings. The brush strokes that flow, spread, and seep into the surface and the sides of the painting are what make up his work. Also, his paintings embrace the cycle of nature where all things eventually return to the earth, which implies that he had an unusual experience of having life on the verge of death. Yun Hyong-keun's art, which began from his prolonged life, accepts and sublimates the tragedies that exist in life into the principles and beauty of nature.
