[Lee Kang-soYi Kang-so] (b Taegu, 1943). Korean artist. He studied at Seoul National University and Kyemyong University, Taegu, and has exhibited in Korea, Japan, the USA, Europe and elsewhere. A leading modernist and active member of the Korean Avant Garde Association, Lee played a decisive role in the first Korean contemporary art festival in 1974. He has experimented with many techniques, from painting, drawings, prints and photography to installation, performance and video art. In the mid-1980s he began to concentrate on paintings in oil, employing subdued blues and greys. On such surfaces he placed images of ducks, deer and boats, executed in brushstrokes that in their calligraphic quality acknowledge Korean traditions. His subjects are seen as symbolic of shamanist images (see Korea: History, culture, and patronage) and reveal a perceptive awareness of nature. His use of after-images, especially of ducks, hints at the shifting movement of the birds. Flow from the Far East (exh. cat., ed. ...