“It was his seeking of purity through his basic formative and spatial elements – mountain, plain, color.”

    Im Young-bang Exploration and Effort to Internalize Nature into Formative Space, 1979

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“It’s evident that his path to abstraction was something like an given destiny for him. If it were not for him, if it were not for his determination and fierce development of consciousness, what would have happened to Korean abstract art of modernism of Korean art?”

    Oh Kwang SuThe path of abstraction

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“No matter what one says, something that consistently flows through his life as a whole is his liberal consciousness towards the society and nature.”

    Lee In Bum The topic of the 60-year-old industry is freedom, freedom, freedom

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“Yoo Young-kuk believed, with all certainty, that art was a way to build those visions that showed that the world can be different and better.”

    Bartomeu MaríNAVIGATING THE AVANT-GARDE, 2019

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“Among his generation artists, he is an exceptional artist who was the only one to adhere to his abstract painting. The fact that he has took a consistent path from the beginning to today without making the formative world of geometric abstraction a trend of the times also testifies his unwavering determination towards formative art.”

    Lee IlTypical Example of Korean Modernism Painting: Yoo Youngkuk, 1996

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