First-generation abstract painter Lee Joon dies at 101
Korea's first generation of abstract painters, Lee Joon, died of old age at 101 on Friday, according to The National Academy of Arts. Born in Namhae, South Gyeongsang Province in 1919, Lee went to Japan at the end of the 1930s and graduated in 1942 from the Pacific Art School, a private Western painting school attended by many Korean painters, such as Gu Bon-ung, Lee In-seong and Nam Gwan.
Source: koreatimes.co.kr