What is real? | Joon Won Jeong | TEDxKL

Joon Won a self taught artist, create remarkable work of arts which looks life like but yet not really real.
Joongwon Jeong is a South Korean artist, best known for his stunningly realistic portraits. While studying in Hongik University, Joongwon he trained himself in sculpturing, photography, graphic design, film-making and even explored stage acting.
\Joongwon’s works are praised by art connoisseurs for being notably different from those of his fellow hyperrealists. Inspired by ancient statues or old drawings and imagining how they might have looked like in real life, he creates photo-realistic images of people that predate the coloured photographs such as Homer, Giluiano de Medici and Seneca, introducing the spectators to, as the artist terms it, ‘the phantasma of Simulacra’.
Joongwon is currently completing the MFA programme on painting at Hongik University as well as showing his work in and outside the country. He is also teaching a course on figurative painting in Seoul.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@ricardofranciszayas]

This young man is a genius.

[@peilin3279]

Like the way he starts his speech and his accents.

[@박진주-m9y]

His name is Joongwon Jung not Joonwon Jung

[@kmetharom]

Fantastic hard work. Thanks.

[@felipesantos2]

Excellent lecture!!

[@widerhorizon]

I think forgery is way more severely accused of~ sculpture could be mere attempt of the reality. So more people can have the opportunity to access and appreciate it in the end. It might be Realization of Democracy to a little more exaggeration:) Also the subway map of Seoul is not an art but rather a simple functional simulation to visualize, I guess~ it's just a very practical application of it. But for a frontline hyperreal artist, those can be considered as even crime:)

[@yohanahramen6756]

Why 200 likes? Bro literally explained reality tf