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  Lee Kyoung Mi's 'New Vertical Painting' is a work that brought the motif from 'Apocalypse' by German artist Albrecht Dürer. The Apocalypse is also called the Revelation of John and is the last volume of the New Testament, which talks about the end of the world and a new start afterwards. The author first encountered Dürer's 'Apocalypse' at Hessen State Museum in Germany in 2016, and it is said tha the line of living and breathing in his work caused a great stir in Lee's abyss in life in an era of lethargy and fragmentation. Lee created her inspiration as a work and introduced her first 'New Vertical Painting' in 2019, which drew a big attention and she won Seokju Art Award that year.

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  As an expression of awe toward Dürer, Lee translated all her works into brush strokes and brought the original work to the present. Although she could have chosen the 'new way' which is easily printed with a developed technology nowadays, she worked with the 'old way' which every stroke is made by hand. This is because Lee thought that the more times changes and technology develops, the more meaning of contrasting with what can be easily taken is amplified. New Vertical Painting, which was introduced in 2019, Durer's work was painted on a transcribed screen with printed advertising flyers in Germany like a collage of images.