Color Fantasy
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Book Introduction
A record of life hidden behind color… Highly recommended by six figures in the art, broadcasting, and philosophy worlds.
“Ha Tae-im’s work is a ‘color fantasy’ itself” - Art historian Lee Tae-ho
“Ha Tae-im is not a color.” He says that the essence of Ha Tae-im cannot be defined by color alone.
- Yeo Jun-young, PCG Prain Global CEO
"When you close a book, what remains is not the work, but the person." - Yong-hu Park, Perspective Designer
"A book about how one's life transforms into art" - Announcer Han Seok-jun
"A book where color becomes philosophy and emotions become a record" - Art critic Ahn Hyun-jung (Doctor of Art Philosophy)
"A Vivid Confessions of a Star Writer" - Art Critic Kim Jong-geun / Chairman of the Jeon Hyeok-lim Art Award Jury
《Color Fantasy》 is a diary of colors written by artist Ha Tae-im over the past 20 years while going back and forth between life and art, and a record of her journey as an artist.
From the moment she gave birth to her first child in 1999 to her most recent work notes in 2023, the artist has been transforming the "emotions of life" into the "language of color."
Beginning from the perspective of a young mother raising a child, this book continues with the inner reflections of an artist who has endured the passage of time, blurring the lines between "living" and "painting."
In the work notes, there are tremors of the heart more delicate than the movements of the brush tip, and in the travel scenery, there flows the warmth of a being that has temporarily put aside the weight of life.
“When blue meets pink, the garden of the heart opens.”
In those fleeting scenes where colors and emotions intersect, readers will soon discover their own color.
The colors of life and art, love and waiting, and memories.
Ha Tae-im's first collection of essays is a narrative of color that permeates an artist's life, and a quiet mirror that reflects the inner selves of all of us.
“Ha Tae-im’s work is a ‘color fantasy’ itself” - Art historian Lee Tae-ho
“Ha Tae-im is not a color.” He says that the essence of Ha Tae-im cannot be defined by color alone.
- Yeo Jun-young, PCG Prain Global CEO
"When you close a book, what remains is not the work, but the person." - Yong-hu Park, Perspective Designer
"A book about how one's life transforms into art" - Announcer Han Seok-jun
"A book where color becomes philosophy and emotions become a record" - Art critic Ahn Hyun-jung (Doctor of Art Philosophy)
"A Vivid Confessions of a Star Writer" - Art Critic Kim Jong-geun / Chairman of the Jeon Hyeok-lim Art Award Jury
《Color Fantasy》 is a diary of colors written by artist Ha Tae-im over the past 20 years while going back and forth between life and art, and a record of her journey as an artist.
From the moment she gave birth to her first child in 1999 to her most recent work notes in 2023, the artist has been transforming the "emotions of life" into the "language of color."
Beginning from the perspective of a young mother raising a child, this book continues with the inner reflections of an artist who has endured the passage of time, blurring the lines between "living" and "painting."
In the work notes, there are tremors of the heart more delicate than the movements of the brush tip, and in the travel scenery, there flows the warmth of a being that has temporarily put aside the weight of life.
“When blue meets pink, the garden of the heart opens.”
In those fleeting scenes where colors and emotions intersect, readers will soon discover their own color.
The colors of life and art, love and waiting, and memories.
Ha Tae-im's first collection of essays is a narrative of color that permeates an artist's life, and a quiet mirror that reflects the inner selves of all of us.
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index
prolog
Chapter 1: From Life to Painting - Birth, Motherhood, and the Artist's Prelude
1) My first morning
2) The case of abandoning a younger sibling
3) July 9, 1999 - gave birth to her first child
4) Working as a temporary teacher
5) My first exhibition - Self-portrait
6) The road left on mother's shoulders
7) Train station
8) Young mother and daughter
9) Small wish
Chapter 2: The Language of Color, A Diary of the Heart - Reading the Artist's Inner Self through Work Notes
1) About my work
2) Actions and coordination in color space
3) Color Fantasy
4) Waiting
5) Become transparent and silent
6) When blue meets pink
7) green to green
8) Garden of the Heart
Chapter 3: Encountering Color in Travel and Time - Eyes that Walk the World, Hands that Draw Longing
1) The spring breeze is a five-colored rainbow
2) Lascaux
3) 'Moses and Aaron' at the Bastille Opera
4) Carcassonne, Walking Through Time
5) In the workshop in Paris
6) Reconstruction of the incident
7) First exhibition in Italy - Returning to Rome after 20 years
8) A Journey to Africa, a Land of Division and Life
9) Teresa and the Crow
10)) Under the curtain of the sky
Chapter 4: The Light of Thought, the Color of Being - Memory, Relationships, and the Path Back to Life
1) Shadow of Death, Light of the Sun
2) Earning a living through art
3) The pity of fake vegetarians
4) Exhibition of gratitude
5) Practice staying in the fall, now, here
6) I am fifty-three years old, looking back at myself from favoritism.
7) Waiting for you
8) A windy day
9) A bittersweet consolation
10) Chagall, Breaking My Prejudices
11) Side view
12) Tear down and rebuild
13) Ha In-du, Ha Tae-im, forget, continue, exist - a name I miss, a name I miss
Epilogue
Chapter 1: From Life to Painting - Birth, Motherhood, and the Artist's Prelude
1) My first morning
2) The case of abandoning a younger sibling
3) July 9, 1999 - gave birth to her first child
4) Working as a temporary teacher
5) My first exhibition - Self-portrait
6) The road left on mother's shoulders
7) Train station
8) Young mother and daughter
9) Small wish
Chapter 2: The Language of Color, A Diary of the Heart - Reading the Artist's Inner Self through Work Notes
1) About my work
2) Actions and coordination in color space
3) Color Fantasy
4) Waiting
5) Become transparent and silent
6) When blue meets pink
7) green to green
8) Garden of the Heart
Chapter 3: Encountering Color in Travel and Time - Eyes that Walk the World, Hands that Draw Longing
1) The spring breeze is a five-colored rainbow
2) Lascaux
3) 'Moses and Aaron' at the Bastille Opera
4) Carcassonne, Walking Through Time
5) In the workshop in Paris
6) Reconstruction of the incident
7) First exhibition in Italy - Returning to Rome after 20 years
8) A Journey to Africa, a Land of Division and Life
9) Teresa and the Crow
10)) Under the curtain of the sky
Chapter 4: The Light of Thought, the Color of Being - Memory, Relationships, and the Path Back to Life
1) Shadow of Death, Light of the Sun
2) Earning a living through art
3) The pity of fake vegetarians
4) Exhibition of gratitude
5) Practice staying in the fall, now, here
6) I am fifty-three years old, looking back at myself from favoritism.
7) Waiting for you
8) A windy day
9) A bittersweet consolation
10) Chagall, Breaking My Prejudices
11) Side view
12) Tear down and rebuild
13) Ha In-du, Ha Tae-im, forget, continue, exist - a name I miss, a name I miss
Epilogue
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Publisher's Review
“Color was another name for emotion to me.”
Ha Tae-im is a painter who has been consistently exploring the ‘action of color’ since the early 2000s.
He has been recording the times and emotions he has experienced through the process of building up and destroying colors on the screen.
《Color Fantasy》 is his first work written in words, and another work completed outside the canvas.
Chapter 1 calmly unfolds her life as a woman, a mother, and a teacher.
Chapter 2 shows the inner thoughts of an artist who thinks about color through his work notes.
In Chapter 3, we ask ourselves again about the 'origin of color' through the landscapes and people we encounter while traveling to various cities around the world.
The final four chapters express the fundamental emotions of existence, such as death, relationships, waiting, and gratitude, through color, proving that art is ultimately a hymn to 'being alive.'
His sentences are neat and restrained, yet they are imbued with the light of countless seasons.
Even when he wasn't painting, he was still a 'colorist'.
A confession from an artist who rediscovered himself through life, art, and color.
《Color Fantasy》 asks us:
“What color is your heart now?”
Ha Tae-im is a painter who has been consistently exploring the ‘action of color’ since the early 2000s.
He has been recording the times and emotions he has experienced through the process of building up and destroying colors on the screen.
《Color Fantasy》 is his first work written in words, and another work completed outside the canvas.
Chapter 1 calmly unfolds her life as a woman, a mother, and a teacher.
Chapter 2 shows the inner thoughts of an artist who thinks about color through his work notes.
In Chapter 3, we ask ourselves again about the 'origin of color' through the landscapes and people we encounter while traveling to various cities around the world.
The final four chapters express the fundamental emotions of existence, such as death, relationships, waiting, and gratitude, through color, proving that art is ultimately a hymn to 'being alive.'
His sentences are neat and restrained, yet they are imbued with the light of countless seasons.
Even when he wasn't painting, he was still a 'colorist'.
A confession from an artist who rediscovered himself through life, art, and color.
《Color Fantasy》 asks us:
“What color is your heart now?”
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: November 30, 2025
- Format: Hardcover book binding method guide
- Page count, weight, size: 264 pages | 145*205*20mm
- ISBN13: 9791164804016
- ISBN10: 1164804014
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