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Hong Kyungtaek’s paintings are filled with luscious, repetitive patterns of colors. Objects like pens and books in various, vivid colors or rhythmically flowing patterns are densely composed while they are dancing all over the smooth surfaces of the canvases. The intensity of repetitive rhythm and visualization of stimulating sounds in his paintings comes from the sensibility of the artist who can be easily related to TV, pop music. The artist refers this to a made up word, ‘funchestra,’ which is the combination of the words ‘funk’ and ‘orchestra’. It is worth to mention that the artist places realistic images of celebrities and religious leaders in the center of his canvas. The meaning of the images have manifolds as their noble character are mingled with dazzling patterns as if they were performed in a concert making variations. In the sense the artist is visually expressing zeitgeist.