WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
ARTIST : KAZE PARK
CLIENT : ESPN DEPORTES
IN 2017 ,ESPN Has Collected Several Artworks From Many Countries That Play Baseball at the WBC league. I am the Korean representative artist of this project. I created this artwork in the background of Korean traditional culture and history.
Meet some of the 16 artists who worked on designing posters representing the 16 countries competing in the 2017 World Baseball ClassicESPN Deportes is unveiling a collection of 16 posters representing each country competing in the tournament. ESPN Deportes, the Spanish-language home of Beisbol in the U.S., will provide comprehensive, multimedia coverage of the 2017 World Baseball Classic. The network will air up to 45 games, including up to 22 primetime windows.
구성 아이디어 스케치 - Configuration idea sketchch
Line drawing
I remembered four major-leaguers in Korea as the composition of the World Baseball Classic Illustration.
The reason I made the artwork with four major-leaguers wanted to include the meaning of "4" in Korea.
In South Korea, "4" means the god (four gods) who defend the north, south, east and west. There are four gods: BLUE DRAGON, BAEKHO, JOOJAK, and HYUNMOO.
Each god also symbolizes a set of the five Elements and colors.
"BLUE DRAGON" is east and spring, and trees and blue.
"BAEKHO" is the west and autumn, and gold and white.
"JOOJAK" is the south, summer, and fire and red.
"HYUNMOO" means north and winter, and water and black.
These are telling stories and legends of constellations in East Asia.
I wanted to express baseball as meaningful illustration along with Korean traditional culture based on Korean culture.
Based on the traditional culture style of Korea, we set up the background.
There are many national treasures in Korea, and the national treasures are cultural forms worthy of being listed on UNESCO.
I took the concept as a representative cultural form that I think is the most important of the representative Korean cultural styles.
I took the concept as a representative cultural form that I think is the most important of the representative Korean cultural styles.
And I imagined. I wanted to draw a picture that could express all of this.
Four representative major-leaguers in Korea
(Choo Shin-soo, Lee Dae-ho, Kim Hyun-su, Kang Jeong-ho)
1.추신수 - Choo Shin-soo
"BLUE DRAGON" is east and spring, and trees and blue.
He has an accurate batting ability and always has the ability to defeat opponents with a keen eye.
2. 이대호 - Lee Dae-ho
"BAEKHO" is the west and autumn, and gold and white.
He has a powerful batting ability and always has the ability to control opponents with advanced skills.
3. 김현수 - Kim Hyun-su
"JOOJAK" is the south, summer, and fire and red.
He has a witty batting ability, and always has the ability to contribute to the team and lead the game in a stable manner.
4. 강정호 - Kang Jeong-ho
"HYUNMOO" means north and winter, and water and black.
He has a variety of batting skills, a clever play, and the ability to outsmart the opponent with his advanced skills.
태극 - Tai Chi
- Taegeuk, which means Yin and Yang, is a pattern containing both sides of black / white and the meaning of the world.
The Korean flag contains all of these meanings.
I wanted to construct the meaning of Taegeuk in the Korean flag as an important medium of major-leaguers and elements in my artwork.
의미 - meaning
WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC ARTWORK
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I am inspired by sports players.
Among them, I like baseball.
Among them, I like baseball.
Especially, I love sports with energy and sense of energy.
The bonus image
My favorite major-leaguer
A representative major-leaguers of Korea is "Choo Shin-soo"
A representative major-leaguers of Korea is "Ryu Hyun Jin"
