This document summarizes information about three artists - Kyungwoo Chun, Rene Magritte, and Sue Law - and their work exploring relationships and physical intimacy in photography and painting. It provides background on Kyungwoo Chun's softly rendered portraits and interactive performances exploring human connection. It describes Rene Magritte's surrealist paintings that rearrange everyday objects and scenes to challenge viewers' perceptions. It also mentions Sue Law's 2007 work "The life and death of a relationship" but provides no details.

1. Romantic Relationships
By Max Baker

2. • Within the theme of 'Relationships' I will explore
physical relationships. I am interested in documenting
between people in relationships, what bring people
together? Are these relationships can they change in
different circumstances. I will explore the works of Jeff
Wall, Trish Morrissey, Kyungwoo Chun, Joachim
Schmid and Rene Magritte investigating their images to
inspire my own work. Through the use of digital
camera and editing techniques I hope to discover how
physical relationships defined and what creates a visual
connection through photographic art.

4. Kyungwoo Chun
• Born in Korea, now based in Germany, Kyungwoo Chun is known for his softly controlled treatment of his subjects.
Much of Chun’s photographic work is deeply figural and plays with the standards of traditional portraiture. Since
his first solo show in 1994, Chun has exhibited heavily in his home country, as well as across Europe and beyond.
Chun also works in performance and video. Much of his highly interactive performance work engages directly with
public space and site-specificity, and uses the viewers as crucial elements in the work, whether they are writing
text, folding paper airplanes, or simply touching it. In Versus (2011), Chun installed a curving, minimalist bench in
the heart of Times Square, then filled the structure with two facing rows of people. For the run of the piece,
opposing participants gently leaned on one another, in a partial-hug of an embrace. Video functions in several
ways for Chun. At times, the moving camera does the same as stills, blurring figural forms into abstracted color
and shapes. At others, the videos serve as essential documentation of performances that are only activated by an
audience of participants who drive the work. Chun's work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Museum of
Photography in Seoul, the Center for Contemporary Art in Aarhus, the Kunstverein Ruhr in Essen, and the
Museum of Fine Art Houston.

5. Rene Magritte
• Rene Magritte was one of the most well known and famous surrealist painters of all time, yet it was not
until his 50s, when he was finally able to reach some form of fame and recognition for his work. He was
extremely influential in the transformation of surrealism art, to the pop art movement, with the work he
created, and the distinct style which he took with the creations that he made during the course of his
career. Much of the work created by Rene Magritte, takes everyday, normal objects, and he would simply
rearrange the figures, and locations, forcing the viewer to take a deeper look at what was in front of them,
and at what the image truly represented.

6. Sue Law – The life and death of a
relationship 2007