Title of art	수박 1/watermelons 1			Sector	Painting (회화)
Art specifications	150?200cm			Material technique	Oil on canvas
Collection year	2019			Production year	2010
Gallery	Seoul Museum of Art			Artist	Leeje
Description of art	〈Watermelon 1〉(2010) and 〈Watermelon 2〉(2010) are works that depict shattered watermelon chunks discarded as garbage. In 2010, the artist was aiming for an attitude adopting inconsistent narratives, fragmentary compositions, and feelings of unification in her works. For example, it was clearly a piece of watermelon thrown away on the road, but the artist mentioned that she wanted to make it look like sensuous flesh or a bouquet of colorful flowers by drawing it beautifully. By breaking away from the conventional descriptive method, Leeje applied colors that she did not use much in the past and showed accidental and sensuous touches and techniques. As a result, it becomes irrelevant whether the object is a watermelon, a lump of flesh, or a bouquet of flowers; rather it becomes the painting itself. Therefore, the image is closer to an abstract motif than a watermelon.
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