Minjae Lee (Greno)

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Minjae Lee is a South Korean self-taught artist. His common medium are pencils and colour markers.

Finding inspiration from people, nature and emotions he is able to create works that depict the beauty of nature, fragility of emotions and brashness of human beings.

He blends in strong contrasting colours that creates aggressive scenes with the fine pencil lines forming a mixture of beauty and passion. His works' juxtaposition of beauty, fragility, brash and aggression actually

Despite the bright colours the character he creates shows dark and mysterious personality, creating a sense of drama in its juxtaposition.


("Indian" , Paper and Mixed Media.)
As you can see, he used bright colours in such delicate patterns. The women face looks aloof and mysterious, the are surrounding her face has the most dark colours making the atmosphere feel very dark. Her hand is of a different complexion meaning it could be someone else's hand that is touching her face. The hand has multiple thumbs and fingers showing overlapping in the limb, this shows her being trapped and stopped by more than one person, they're trying to reach her mouth to stop her from speaking, not letting her have a voice in a situation/event.










("Faith", Mixed media on paper 2012)

I think the way he named this piece is interesting, "Faith" could just be the name for the person drawn on the paper or it could be a representation of "Faith", something that some people believe. I think it is a representation because the patterns surrounding their head resembles closely to a halo. The body is coloured in dark colours, only the hand that reaches towards the face has vibrant colours. The vivid coloured hand could be to represent the many number of people who believe in Faith and are reaching out towards it. 

(http://www.grenomj.com/#!2012/zoom/c23dm/image_21oc)