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Lim Taekyu’s known for his unconventional method of classical eastern painting. He has shown consistent interest in concept on ‘marginal men’ as his subject matter. His idea on marginal man has developed as the edition grew. Till the year 2005, the marginal men constituted with people who are confused and not able to be adjusted to the society. People who are not able to settle down are portrayed from the person-observer narrator’s view point in his painting. By the year 2006, his idea on marginal men are shifted to surreal dimension in which marginal men are ones who escaped from the reality and dream of utopia. The artist speaks that he came to realization that marginal men are not moping over the dark side of the society only. This become the occasion through which he develop deeper sense of sympathy and taking the lead on the picture plane. The supple movement in cheerful color is applied and the characters are freely cruising the surface adding liveliness. The characters are mingled with brightly colored reality celebrating joy and diversity in lives. Lim Taekyu’s investigative attitudes on the subject matter and imagination on them are incorporated with the brush strokes to create joyful images.