20000005 Kang, Song Hee

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René Magritte,
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Illusion of Reality.
20000005 Kang, Song Hee
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Quotes.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world
would not exist.
Everything we see hides another thing, we always
want to see what is hidden by what we see.
My painting is visible images which conceal
nothing they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one
sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this
simple question 'What does that mean'? It does
not mean anything, because mystery means nothing
either, it is unknowable.
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Paintings,1920s.
Description
Attempting the Impossible, 1928. Oil on canvas,
Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels.
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Paintings,1920s.
Description
False Mirror, 1928.
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Paintings,1920s.
Description
Dangerous Liaisons, 1926. Oil on canvas. 72 64
cm. Private collection.
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Paintings,1920s.
Description
Panorama populaire, 1926. Oil on canvas. 120 80
cm.
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Paintings,1930s.
Description
Black Magic, 1933.
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Paintings,1930s.
Description
The Therapist, 1937.
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Paintings,1930s.
Description
Time Transfixed, 1938. Oil on canvas, 14798.7cm.
Joseph Winterbotham Collection.
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Paintings,1930s.
Description
Not to be reproduced, 1937. Oil on canvas.
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Paintings,1940s.
Description
The Harvest, 1943. 60 80cm.
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Paintings,1940s.
Description
The Return of the Flame, 1943. Oil on
canvas. Private collection
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Paintings,1950s.
Description
The Month of the Grape Harvest, 1959. Oil on
canvas, 130160cm. Private collection.
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Paintings,1950s.
Description
Golconda, 1953. The Menil Collection, Houston,
Texas.
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Paintings,1950s.
Description
Castle in the Pyrenees, 1959.
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Paintings,1950s.
Description
The Empire of Light, 1954. Oil on canvas. Musee
Royaux des Beaux-Arts
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Paintings,1950s.
Description
The Explanation, 1954. Oil on canvas. 80 60
cm. Private Collection.
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Paintings,1960s.
Description
The Blank Check, 1965. Oil on canvas. National
Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
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Questions.

• What do you see in these pictures?
• -Questions about time and space
• Questions about the existence of an object
• Questions about what we see
• How do you see things,
• and can you trust what you see?
• Questions about meanings in them

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Illusions.
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Analysis.

• Conceptual surrealism
• Recurring motif
• - Paradox and contrast
• - Illusions and problems of visual perception
• - Reality of the visibly world
• Altered the viewer to the process of seeing

Plays on our common sense and perception of
reality. Only a representation of one.
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Realism in CG.

• Conceptual Framework, for realism in Computer
  Graphics images
• Image Process selection, approximation, and
  abstraction.
• Realistic image synthesis has been one of the
  major research directions in computer graphics
  modeling, rendering, and displaying algorithms
• Three Varieties of Realism in Computer Graphics
• - physical realism
• - photo-realism
• - functional realism

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Functional realism.
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Functional Realism.
Focused on visual information Can make use of
special effect like artificial transparency to
depict important features that would be hidden in
photographs Offering various and efficient
rendering style rather than physical or photo
realistic rendering The point that Magritte was
trying to make is that an image of a thing is not
the same as the thing itself, and we should be
careful not to confuse the two.
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Conclusion.
Reality is all about illusion.
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References.

• Three Varieties of Realism in Computer Graphics,
  James A. Ferwerda, Program of Computer Graphics
  Cornell University.
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