Kim Taek-Sang, a leading Korean Post-Dansaekhwa painter, captures the beauty of nature on canvas. As a child growing up in Wonju, Gangwon Province, the artist was greatly influenced by the colors of nature. Observing the beauty hidden in the colors of nature, Kim's constant search for the essence of water to express its brilliance has led to his current work.

The artist finds beauty in the movement of light as it changes over time, like the inhalation and exhalation of life. And the artist saw the resonance of life as manifesting in color. Kim's work is about taking a lifeless object, the canvas, and imbuing it with a life force that is actually 'alive' like the colors of natural life.

In fact, although Kim's paintings are called ‘Dansaekhwa’, he rarely works entirely in one color. The process of precipitating different colors is repeated, and the final result is a single color. However, the paints of different colors could not be able to mix, and the result is not a Dansaekhwa, but a painting with layers of different colors. 

In other words, it is not a painting realized by the artist's perfect control, but a painting that opens up various possibilities led by the processes of nature and resonates with them. In doing so, Kim Taek-sang's paintings do not assert the presence of the artist. Instead, the artist and natural elements such as water, gravity, and wind meet within the frame of the canvas, forming an organic collaboration and resonance, resulting in a history of time.