KIM Whanki’s Formative Experiments with Dots, Lines, Planes and Colors
[25-III-69 #46]

In the early 1960s, new experiences in New York opened Kim’s eyes, elevated his sense of beauty, and stimulated his will to create. Through diverse formative experiments, he created works with new forms, different from his previous paintings. While more actively condensing or deconstructing images of nature in his intensive research on picture composition, his images gradually evolved from semi-abstract shapes into pure formative elements, such as dots, lines, planes and colors.