At the Asian Art Museum, Paintings You’ll Want to Lick
Ha Chong-Hyun: Retrospective doesn’t need a more exciting title because the exhibition is drop dead gorgeous. Though he’s called “the father of Korean modernism,” Ha isn’t yet a household name in the U.S. Nevertheless, the Asian Art Museum clearly trusts the paintings themselves to entice people to visit this show. But there’s a surprise among the stunning aesthetic beauty. While Ha’s work supports an art-for-art’s-sake appreciation, it quickly becomes apparent that Ha’s paintings are witnesses to and documents of the tumultuous, consequential history of Korea over the country’s dizzying…
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