Musical piece ‘Harmonielehre’ was composed by John Adams in 1985. The name of composition stands for ‘study of harmony’ in German, which is a book written by Arnold Schoenberg. The musical piece gets the fame for combining Schoenberg’s harmonic principles with minimalism. It is plausible that the artist would dream the rendezvous of two distinguished eras in art history, Mondrian and Matisse, through the music ‘Harmonielehre’.

‘A Singer Bjork’ series were made while the artist listened to Bjork’s music. In 1979, Bjork released her first album with Exodus, a jazz fusion group and she has continued to adopt various musical forms. Through a song the singer pours various sensations all at once. The Artist Moon, through ‘A Singer Bjork’ series, tried to pour various sensations onto a canvas. That might be causing the works seem to be a little thicker in density of colors and brush strokes compared to other works.

‘Heart Break Wonderland’ series are considered to show more various features among the artist’s recent works. A Japanese musician named Katsuhiko Maeda released ‘Heart Break Wonderland’ in World’s End Girlfriend which has brought him a fame. Both Bjork and World’s End Girlfriend lead the artist to a great journey towards the mystic world. The work ‘Heart Break Wonderland’ series show the varied speed of brush strokes and different layers of colors with tension and looseness that help us to travel the world of colors.

A minimalist in music, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) put forward to the principle that the 12 notes of the chromatic scale appear in a set to form a row as the unifying basis for a composition and he offered absolute equality to every musical note. Such minimal principle has a characteristic appearing in Moon’s: her second principle is to balance all the elements of painting such as background colors, drawn lines for sketch, and colors. She keeps the idea in her mind all the time even when she is charmed by music and indulged into her painting with her brush dancing on the canvas. She turns the corner of the canvas not to paint a spot excessively, and the self-restraint enhances the emotional entropy. She never forgets room for background color and the draft drawing so that all the elements could wiggle with the splendid colors on them. For the artist the background color, the draft drawing, and the surface colors are equal parts of the work. The artist Moon harmoniously put Mondrian and Matisse into her artistic wonderland through equally combining put full of emotion and plastic elements.

So Young Cho, Art critic, Seoul 2008