Young Painters of the World

The Program of UNESCO Preparing for the International Conference of Artists, the director general Jaime Torres Bodet felt the need to consult member states about associations of arts in their own countries.

He had an official enquiry letter(CL/497) sent to each member state on April 5, 1951 in order to ask: (1) Do you consider the establishment of an International Association of Artists in the field of the visual arts to be desirable?

[8][9] The 23 national governments represented there and 48 artists' associations from 19 countries agreed on the goal of founding an international umbrella organization for sculptors, painters and engravers.

Based on his interview and the material he presented, it was almost a one-month long program which consists of workshop, tours, seminar, a group exhibition and an art contest among the participants.

According to the private letter written in 1965 from Kim Tschang-yeul to Park Seo-bo, it is sure that another Young Painters of the World was organized by the U.K committee of IAA/AIAP and held in London in 1965.

However, some countries didn't get the letter so that their representative artists arrived in Paris on January next year only to find themselves way ahead of the actual schedule.

Because translators were not provided, they didn't communicate fully even at conference but they shared the printed handouts of reports each participant was supposed to present either in French or English.

They visited together the tomb of Vincent van Gogh at Auvers-sur-Oise on a tour bus and had a group show in Compiègne from October 21 to 22 during the program.

The participants were told to submit into the contest two pieces of art work created on the subject of the emerging new town Sarcelles near Paris.

[16] According to the brochure of the group exhibition in Compiègne which Park Seo-Bo has kept, at least 27 young artists from 24 member countries came to Paris to participate in the programme.