Posted : 2021-05-21 09:04
Updated : 2021-05-21 11:48
Joo Jae-hwan s Portrait of Homin (2020), left, and Joo Ho-min s Portrait of Jaehwan (2021) / Korea Times photo by Park Han-sol
By Park Han-sol
Upon entering the second floor of the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), visitors immediately lock eyes with the two amusing portraits on display side by side. A bright yellow face with flower-shaped sunglasses for eyes and a melting plastic ice cream for a nose fills the canvas on the left, while an elderly man s cartoonish face rests on an LED panel next to it. I didn t start out with the intention to draw my son s face but the yellow, round head ended up looking exactly like him, the 81-year-old painter Joo Jae-hwan said of the portrait of his son, Ho-min.