Korean highschooler wins big with her canvas with a heartbeat

Ji Su-yeon poses with product Anastasia Chetyreva for the Earth Bodypainting Competition 2021. [KOREAN MAKE-UP ARTIST ASSOCIATION]

 
Utilizing just a brush, some paint and a canvas with a heartbeat, higher school scholar Ji Su-yeon won initially spot at the “Amateur Award: Brush/Sponge Bodypainting” category of the World Bodypainting Festival (WBF) 2021, an yearly Austrian-based opposition.
 
In an e-mail job interview with the Korea JoongAng Day by day in early August, the teenager from Suwon, Gyeonggi claimed she was flattered about the earn and expressed her gratitude for the people she labored with: Product Anastasia Chetyreva whom she met through the Korean Make-up Artist Association, her art instructors at the artwork institute she goes to at Suwon and at last, her parents.
 
WBF 2021 kicked off online on July 19 and ran till the 24. This year marks the festival’s 24th anniversary, and 455 artists from 48 different countries participated in the celebration. Beautiful performs of art arrive to lifetime every year just after the fashionable bodypainting artwork movement was proven in 1998. Since then it has been creating contributions in bodypainting’s recognition as a type of high-quality art.  
 
This year’s topic was “historical moments.”
 
“If you ended up to inquire me [about] a historic minute, I would decide on ‘the invention of television’ without hesitation,” Ji wrote in her quick explanation of her do the job that was submitted for the levels of competition. “Television [has always] immediately conveyed problems going on all-around the environment, made folks experience closer to the world’s terrific [historical figures] and shared hopes [about] life.”
 

The entrance side of Ji’s artwork elaborately reveals historic times in the record of tv. [KOREAN MAKE-UP ARTIST ASSOCIATION]

 
Chetyreva was painted purple and then experienced check designs — the display you see on television when no plans are staying aired at the instant — additional.
 
Ji described the depth of the exam sample as “a screen that [people] watched with anticipation right up until the [program] came out when [people] turned on the Tv.” Test styles had been frequently seen on tv in the 20th century.
 
Chetyreva wore a spherical, colourful headpiece which Ji described as “a residing memory recording system that goes past the strategy of area and time and connects the entire globe.”
 
Moving on to the overall body, famous public figures, which includes Oprah Winfrey and Oscar-successful actor Youn Yuh-jung have been depicted. There are also a couple of noteworthy historic moments portrayed: A photo of a man and woman kissing after the conclude of World War II, Neil Armstrong’s landing on the moon in 1969 and the 1939 movie “Wizard of Oz.” An anchorman telling the news as a result of a television monitor was painted on Chetyreva’s again.
 

The back again of Ji’s artwork exhibits an anchorman speaking by a tv screen. [KOREAN MAKE-UP ARTIST ASSOCIATION]

 
All these information ended up painted about a whole eight hours in one particular working day. Whilst 8 hours may perhaps look much more than ample, it was a pretty limited agenda, Ji reported. It typically requires a extensive time for the artist to make a rough sketch, and some supplemental edits had to be manufactured throughout the approach.
 
And with the competition shifting on the internet once more this 12 months mainly because of the pandemic, there was a freshly-launched rule that had artists to take 6 images of the portray procedure for the duration of the eight hrs.
 
Ji also explained the complications she faced possessing to juggle amongst her schoolwork and making ready for the competitors. She mentioned that it was challenging not becoming able to follow portray on an genuine design as freely as she normally would have been equipped to due to the fact of the rigorous Covid-19 social distancing actions.
 
“It was especially [hard] to paint on [models’] faces due to the fact they would have to take their masks off, and it was physically impossible to apply social distancing,” mentioned Ji. “I was only ready to function with Anastasia one thirty day period prior to the level of competition. Most of the time I experienced to apply on a mannequin.”  
 
Ji’s perform displays off colourful, lively patterns with distinct details, but she admitted that she located it complicated to cultivate resourceful suggestions owing to the pandemic. She stated she discovered inspiration by having lots of relaxation and finding out from the academics at her art institute in Suwon.
 
“I realized that inspiration can be discovered in our each day life, like noticing the minor matters that can be located close to us,” Ji claimed. “Art doesn’t have to be perceived as one thing hard. Just consider of it as something that can be identified inside oneself and know that the most effective will come out when you are peaceful. I’ve been making an attempt to transform my notion of existence by hunting at points from a distinctive place of view.”
 

WBF necessitates the bodypainting to be concluded inside 8 hours on one working day. [KOREAN MAKE-UP ARTIST ASSOCIATION]

 
Ji defined that this was how she got the plan of employing television to portray historical moments. “I was looking at Oprah Winfrey’s speak clearly show on Television and [I heard her say] ‘failure is defined by how we offer with it,’” Ji explained. “[I] was likely by means of a slump at the time, and [Oprah’s advice] gave me energy to search back again on my lifetime and [take] a leap forward.”
 
What can make this year’s party distinctive is that six local contributors rated inside of the top 10 of the novice group, all whom, such as Ji, are affiliated to the Korean Make-up Artist Association. Park Jung-min, director of the association, attributed this triumph to the remarkably-thriving K-Magnificence industry.
 
“Korea is a leader in elegance products and makeup techniques,” Park reported. “It has the world’s greatest schooling program on cosmetology, like bodypainting. There are pretty much 200 faculties that supply magnificence-associated majors and more than 500 institutes that are specialized in this discipline all throughout the place.”
 

Other versions from WBF 2021 contributed to earning the colourful, creative operates of art appear to everyday living. [KOREAN MAKE-UP ARTIST ASSOCIATION]

 
Nevertheless, bodypainting has a prolonged way to go, in particular in Korea, due to the fact it is in some cases dismissed as “obscene” or “suggestive,” alternatively than staying credited as good art.
 
“It’s difficult to discover local types due to the fact most are reluctant to be nude,” reported Park, incorporating that with this gain, she wishes modern society will come to be extra open up-minded about the idea of expressing several themes and ideas as a result of the human body.
 
“K-Beauty has a shiny upcoming,” reported Ji. “There are so lots of alternatives in this area, so it’s hard for artwork pupils [like me] to decide on amongst different occupation options. Although Korea is presently famed for its sophisticated make-up methods, I think the creativity we [art students] have is our best asset.”
 
Subsequent 12 months, Ji will become a senior in superior faculty and will sit the faculty entrance examination. She explained that she plans on majoring in makeup artwork.
 
“I’ve been in a slump, but I’ve also skilled a whole lot for this level of competition,” Ji said. “I want to repay the assistance and aid I’ve been given more than the decades. In the stop, I want to improve my artwork techniques and use social media platforms to turn out to be an artist that can help other artists way too.”

BY SHIN MIN-HEE [shin.minhee@joongang.co.kr]