What is “Art” to you? Someday, you will realize art exists everywhere. When you buy a pen or draw a line across a board, you have to use your artistic sense. Like this, a job which makes something artistic is called “Art Director.” An art director works to make people’s life beautiful. Chungdae Post repor ter (CP) met “Anna” who is working as an “Art Director” in many fields.
Anna majored in Korean Painting and graduated from CNU last year. Now she works as an Art Director at a Cafe located in Gungdong. As an art director, she decorates the cafe’s sensitive things in an artistic. Also, she acts as a calligrapher. She has done various activities through calligraphy until now and also gives lectures to several students who want to learn about calligraphy.
Why Did She Want to Be an Ar t Director?
When she f irst entered universit y, she joined an adver t isement club. After that, she got an oppor tunit y to help students of the Department of Business Administration. They opened up a cafe named “NONAME” and she acted as an art director there. She designed the cafe’s artistic inter iors. She hung her pictures on the cafe’s wall, wrote name boards and communicated with people through her ar t. Taking this oppor tunity, she started to show her interest in becoming an art director.
Why Did She Become Interested in Calligraphy?
When she met var ious people in Cafe “NONAME,” she began to get interested in calligr aphy. Because of that, she thought she could share feelings with people. She said “Calligraphy is a warm-hearted thing. It is an expression of one’s own feeling and it has a power that makes people share feelings with others. I think it attr acts people because of that reasons. After that, I steadily pract iced calligraphy and I have done a lot of act ivity through calligr aphy.” She focuses on “sharing the same f eelings of each other ” when she conducts the design of ar t works. When she acted as a calligrapher in 2012 Univ E xpo, she wrote messages with wooden chopsticks. She felt great when they got hope from her calligr aphy. She realized material is not important, but
understanding others’ feeling and expressing it is more important in art.
She thinks that people of all kinds go through artistic experience every day. Even when you choose a pen, you choose that pen by using your art istic taste. Calligraphy is al so an ar tistic activity that everyone can do. Everyone has a pen and if you pay attention to wr ite letters and tr y to express one’s own feeling by it, this ef fort can be a beginning of the calligr aphy. “Calligr aphy is not difficult. Everyone can rise to the challenge,” she said.
What Is Anna’s Mot to?
After she started studying ar t, she became realize that art exist s ever ywhere. Hence, she made a motto for her to change herself when she reads that motto. It is written as follows.
“My story is this. The change of the world only comes from art, and art is the only thing that can break new ground.” Her motto says art can change the world like Marcel Duchamp did. For her, ar t is not just simple thing, but it means the star ting point of the change. She always tries to express the meaning of the letter by the name of calligraphy. What she wants is that when someone reads her calligraphy she/ he can get the meaning of it by its style as well as it s let ter. As a result, she/he imagines the letter’s f igures from her calligraphy. It is her motto and goal.
What Is Your Most Impressive Art -Work?
“My most impressive art-work was “Art Crowd funding,” she said. Crowd funding is the collection of finance from backer s to fund recipient’s plan. She backed by several backers and gave them her works in return. The works of ar t were cups car ved with calligraphy. She felt many things from this work because she thought it tr anscends financial thing and gave backers hope and consolation. By this experience, she wanted to be a sensitive designer who can convey her feelings.
Many People Think Art Is Hard to Tr y.
How Can People Approach to Ar t or Calligraphy?
She thinks the best way to be familiar w ith calligraphy is to see and follow various calligr aphies many times. When you choose one letter that you want to wr ite by calligraphy, you should think how you can express it. It is more helpful to choose the letter which touches your mind. Then you write down it repeatedly with many styles. It can help you find wellmatched style with your let ter. Even though you see the letter easily in daily life, it shows different styles because of var ious calligraphy styles. By this way, you know a charm of the calligraphy. Then you become familiar with calligraphy and you can do it well.
What Is Her Plan about Future?
She wants to be a professional art director. As an art director, she has many shortcomings, but she tries to have many experiences in various fields, such as advertising, photography, etc. She will have a chance that makes her greater than now, making her qualified and developing her own theory about art. By her theory, she will be a characteristic An Na.
She Says to CNU Student . . .
Her major is Korean Painting, but now she work s in the f ield of calligraphy and other things. She just uses her major in her work . She wants CNU student s to challenge anything what they want even if it doesn’t related with their majors. Then if you think what you want is well matched w ith you, just choose it. Probably you don’t have any informat ion about what you want to do, but you are young! You are in your 20s. What is important is not your major, but what you want to do.
Kim Yoo-ra | By CP Reporter, Jeong Su-yeon | By CP Cub Reporter