ArtAsiaPacific: Obituary Young Il Ahn19342020
by Lauren Long YOUNG-IL AHN. Photo by Michael Underwood. Courtesy Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago. On December 12, pioneering Korean-American abstract painter Young-Il Ahn passed away in Los Angeles, aged 86. The details of his death have not been disclosed. Ahn is known for his large-scale, colorful abstractions that examine the beauty found in nature and music, as exemplified by his Water (1983–2020) series. He created the oil paintings by using a knife to apply repetitive rectangular blocks of color such as magenta or deep lilac onto blue canvases, depicting the fluidity and majesty of the ...
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