![]() Total civilian casualties are estimated at 2.5 million. Over the next three years, there were offenses and counter-offenses, and the war ended in a stalemate, with more than 750,000 military casualties in South Korea North Korean military casualties are estimated between 1.2 and 1.7 million. This arrangement proved so unstable that the 1950 Korean War erupted. were unable to agree, which led to the establishment of two separate governments: the Communist aligned North-the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and West-aligned First Republic of Korea (South Korea). This was intended as a temporary solution, but the USSR and the U.S. It was divided into two occupation zones after the war, with North Korea under the Soviet Union and South Korea under the U.S. Korea was ruled by Japan from the 1880s through WWII. Usual sources of comfort in times of stress, traditional religion, art, and music were also in a state of change, which left many Americans feeling abandoned by things that they held to be constant and true.Įstablished in August 1948, South Korea’s history was marked by mostly autocratic rule from the First Republic of Syngman Rhee (1948-60) to the Fourth Republic under Park Chung-hee (1972-79). American families wrangled with economic shifts as industries and jobs moved out of the U. was embroiled in the Vietnam War, alarmed and saddened by nightly casualty reports, demoralized by assassinations of visionary leaders on the home-front, rocked by radical social changes, stymied by an oil embargo. Thinking of Hogan’s paintings, her childhood and youth spent in the 1960s and 1970s in South Korea, her immigration to America, her artistic studies at MICA and American University, I am struck by the contrasts -and parallels - between East and West. I am reminded of the soft colorful strands, swaying with the breeze.” In her artist’s statement for the exhibition, Hogan recalled “a childhood memory of my mother and grandmother making silk fabrics, carefully moving each silk strand in the air. while in her 20s and lived in Hawaii, Texas and California, before settling in Howard County, Md. The youngest of eight children, Hogan (née Kim) was born in Naju and grew up on a chicken farm near Soeul, in South Korea. Of special importance to the artist are the mountains, valleys, trees, fields, and waterways of her hometown, Naju (South Jeolla Province, South Korea), those of Allegany and Garrett counties, and the Eastern Shore of Maryland.” While Hogan works with traditional Korean landscape painting techniques, she also employs Western methods.”įulco described her work as follows: “rendered in a calm, airy manner, her paintings meld features of natural scenery that she has observed in South Korea and the United States. Stine Schreiber curator, Daniel Fulco, in his catalog essay for the exhibition, artist Yumi Hogan works “in the long tradition of East Asian landscape painting.” He observes that “Hogan’s work constitutes a bond of Eastern and Western styles, for it blends traditional Sumi ink wash painting techniques with acrylic and mixed media that draw upon the artist’s Korean roots and embrace her life experiences. Through her work teaching art classes to patients with cancer and people with disabilities, Hogan has become a strong proponent of art therapy and the positive impact it can have on health and wellbeing.Īs noted by the museum’s Agnita M. ![]() She also devotes much of her time to visiting Marylanders battling cancer, especially children, and their families. ![]() She has served as the honorary chair of the Council for Arts and Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, working with the University and Baltimore City to promote the arts. ![]() She shares her love of the arts with Marylanders of all ages. She teaches at MICA, and supports arts education in the schools and throughout Maryland communities.Īs first lady of Maryland, Hogan is a primary advocate for the arts. She is deeply committed to arts education, having pursued her own study of art, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Maryland Institute College of Art, and a terminal degree of a Master of Fine Arts American University. She has exhibited her work in the region and in national and international venues, and has actively participated in the artistic life of Maryland. Hogan has lived and worked in Maryland for much of her artistic career. On Saturday, April 14, the museum will open the exhibition, “Nature’s Harmony: East and West, Paintings by Yumi Hogan.” ![]()
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