Ahn Sung-Ha (b. 1977)
Cigarettes 2004
Oil on Canvas
My first reason for choosing to write about this piece was the fact that it was done by a female, Korean artist, which we have in common. Well, the female-Korean aspect…not so much the artist aspect, maybe someday ^_^ but, anyway, the other reason for choosing this piece was because its concept of the cigarettes in a glass was very interesting to me. The interaction between “darkness and beauty� with the cigarettes was quite idiosyncratic. It wasn’t the mundane type of “cigarette art� that I’ve typically seen (i.e. cigarette in an ashtray). This piece to me was very aesthetically pleasing as well. I couldn’t get over how real it looked. It looked like an actual photograph.