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ARTHUR KWON LEE | Art Is a Transcendental Mirror


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Arthur Kwon Lee is an internationally acclaimed fine artist who's exhibited in galleries and collections around the world and been named artist of the year by prestigious institutions.

He received early lessons of masculinity from his “rooftop Korean” pastor father that fed into his classically inspired paintings. But when Arthur took his perspectives off the canvas and onto social media, he discovered the hatred that our culture has for masculinity, as well as for boundaries, discipline, and order — all essential characteristics of great art.

That sent Arthur on a journey that's taken him from cancellation by the art scene into the Manosphere, where he’s made more than a just name for himself, but a home.

In our conversation we discussed:

  • His origins in the gallery world and how he developed his style
  • How masculinity generates respect of boundaries
  • How the arts world is just an arm of the state
  • Why more wealthy conservatives aren't funding engines of cultural production
  • An announcement of his upcoming year-long sabbatical
  • And finally a visual analysis of several of Arthur paintings through various stages of his career

  • It's been deeply inspiring to me to see the timeless values of religion, art, and personal style making their way further into the Renaissance. This is truly becoming a remarkable movement, one which every day I'm becoming prouder to be a part of.

    Because aesthetics lift us up to the divine, and bring the divine down to Earth, which is everything I'm about, as I hope you can see, and which Arthur captures so vividly in his paintings.

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    PAINTINGS REFERENCED:

    “The Agony and the Ecstacy” – view here

    All other paintings:

    https://www.arthurkwonlee.com/paintings/

    “All and Everything”

    “Apex I”
    “Colossal Youth”
    “Kingdom Come”

    LINKS:

    Follow Arthur Kwon Lee on Instagram and Twitter

    ArthurKwonLee.com

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