Painter Hwang Jae-hyung, the "miner artist" who depicted coal mine labor sites, has died.
According to Gana Art and others on the 27th, painter Hwang Jae-hyung, known as the "miner artist," died at 5 a.m. that day at age 74.
Born in 1952 in Boseong, South Jeolla, Hwang Jae-hyung experienced labor sites firsthand and captured issues of the era and human dignity on canvas, and he was also called a leading figure in Korean realist art.
As a leading painter of people's art in the 1980s, he organized the coterie "Imsulnyeon," and won the Encouragement Award at the JoongAng Fine Arts Competition with the painting "Hwangji 330," which is over 2 meters tall.
Starting in 1982, he settled in Taebaek, Gangwon, worked as a miner, and realistically portrayed the joys and sorrows of coal town residents and the labor sites.
Gana Art mourned, saying he was "a painter who gazed at reality with an intense eye from the lowest place of the times," and that "he proved over a lifetime that one person's life can become the portrait of an era."