The Artist Project: Il Lee

Artist Il Lee reflects on Rembrandt van Rijn's portraits in this episode of The Artist Project.

June 22, 2015

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From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"I know that everybody loves the Rembrandt works but to me, as an artist, my favorite part is always the background."

Artist Il Lee reflects on Rembrandt van Rijn's portraits in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Il Lee, born in 1952, is a Korean painter.

Il Lee (American (born Korea), Seoul, 1952)

Untitled 303, 2003

Ballpoint pen on paper; 30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Vilcek Foundation Gift, 2016 (2016.18) © Il Lee

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