T.Y Kim (born 1963 in Seoul, Korea) is a Korean photographer. He photographs a landscape, lifestyle, outdoor and travel subjects. 

 

Kim Tae-young's photographs are based on this extreme realism of the impressionists, creating the photos that actually looks more paintings feel than like real paintings with simplicity and uniformity of the unrealistic colors of the polygons projected through the light. 

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Impressionism was a painting movement that took place in France in the late nineteenth century. It started with depicting scenery. 

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Impressionist painters tried to capture the impression of the ever-changing moment by the light, and to draw a living picture based on realism, taking into account even the smallest changes in color affected by the light. Therefore, the impressionist painters went outdoors and painted. 

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Through his works, he introduces Crossover photo works within the genre of Neo-Impressionism with a philosophy behind.