Hello you!
I was recently reading the latest issue of TIME magazine and I chanced upon the article on a Korean artist- Sun Mu. I thought his artworks are refreshing to the art scene.It is rather comical but yet there is some political satire to the communist regime in North Korea.I shall quote an extract from the article; "He (Sun Mu) spent four years as a propaganda artist, portraying North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in unvaryingly heroic poses, but now the painter Sun Mu is having fun with the form. Since arriving in the South in 2001, 38-year-old Sun Mu — it's an assumed name — has been lampooning his old master from a musty studio in a run-down suburb of western Seoul." His painting mocks at the strict autocratic government of North Korea. In this painting, Please Have Some Medcine (I can't seem to post the picture up but here is the link http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1919276,00.html, Kim Jong Il is depicted as a dying hosipital patient being offered Coke by a North Korean Child. This work could be an encouragement for North Korea to open up to the world. I hope to see more of his work!