Choi Myoung Young

[3][better source needed][4] In addition to these repetitive mark-making tasks which imparts a physicality to the painting, it also uses the hanji paper to create "planar conditions."

"[8] His work has been described as having a, 'breathing' quality: "immersed in the endless breathing and physical movements" that can be perceived as a kind spirituality of Oriental calligraphy rather than as 'painting'.

In this sense, Choi Myoung Young painting is perceived as a Buddhist 'copie des livres sacrés bouddhiques (寫經)' process.

“The monochrome screen created by Choi Myoung Young's vertical and horizontal brushstrokes is a planarized layer that appeared through the process and is a performance that task of imparts physicality.

"[10]The independent curator, Kim Yong-dae describes Young's work as a "simplified paradoxical process in which concepts and objects are endlessly overlapped, rather than divided into individual sounds, unlike the general writing system, and shows how to accommodate and capture only various situations without specific words.

Condensation and convergence through human physicality called 'fingerprints' in the digital media era is Choi Myoung Young 'Conditional Planes.'

It is a point of deep intersection with the 'Ilhoeng (一橫)' of Chusa Kim Jeong-hui (秋史 金正喜, 1786–1856), a Korean calligrapher, epigraphists, scholar and painter who rose to fame in Korea's later Joseon period.

Ilhoeng (一橫) is the quintessence of Chusa Kim Jung-hee's epigraphy calligraphy, which is said to encompass 309 monuments in a single width stroke.

"[12] In this era, sign and symbols were included, the rhetoric of shapes and images increased, and flat paintings with a rich texture were carved respectively.

"[13] The art critic, Byun Jong-pil writes in the essay, Choi Myoung Young, Exploring flatness for the spiritual return of material: “Choi Myoung Young was an artist who realized the process of placing a plane in one space, excluding any narratives, and ultimately acquiring its existence as a plane that merges with the space.

"[14]The article critic Shigeo Chiba describes Young's Conditional Planes series as: "overcoming conventional painting on the ridge.

(left) A photo of his father Choi Jong-cheol and mother Jeon Byung-sook's engagement in 1935. (Right) A commemorative photo with friends in the art class of the Incheon National Sabeomhaggyo (Gyeongin National University of Education) in 1959.
"The 5th Origin" Exhibition, Shinsegae Gallery, 1971. Young standing in front of the work Changing 71-F
(Upper image) Equation 76–42 , 80×100cm Oil on canvas, 1976, (Lower image) Plane Condition 8021 , 70×115cm.
(Upper image) Plane Condition 8016 , 77×53.5cm Silk screen ink on section paper, 1980, (Lower image) Plane Condition 8036 , Oriental Ink on Korean Hanji paper, 1980.
Plane Conditions 8584 , 140×80 cm Oil on canvas, 1985.
Plane Conditions 99–102 , 182×228 cm Acrylic on canvas, 1999.
Young posed in front of Plane Conditions and Fingerprints in the studio
In 1963, the Origin Foundation was held. (From the left in the back row) Kim Suo-ik, Shin Ki-ock, Choi Chang-hong, Kwon Young-woo, Kim Tek-hwa (from the left in the front row) Choi Myoung Young, Suh Seung-won, Lee Seung-jio, and Lee Sang-rak.