On Wednesday, December 3, at 2 p.m., the Foundation held the 437th Wednesday Forum in the main conference room on the 11th floor.

At this forum, Professor Emerita Kim Young-na of Seoul National University (former Director of the National Museum of Korea) gave a lecture titled “Western Modernization and Modernist Art, and What Came After.”

Through examples of Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Post-Impressionism, Abstract Art, Fascism and Socialist Realism, as well as representative modernist works, she explored Western modernization and modernist art. She also discussed the subsequent history of art using examples of media art and works reflecting globalism.

This lecture served as a meaningful occasion to shed light on the currents of art history, grounded in a deep understanding of Western art history.