Choi Gene Uk has been engaged in the exploration of the relationship between realist forms and (post-)modernist attitudes over his 40-year career in painting. Continuously delving into figurative expression, he has studied and renewed various painting techniques to move beyond stagnation and constantly innovate the representation and concepts in his art. This endeavor served as proof of ‘sensitive realism’, a source of pride or declaration for the artist, challenging biases and preconceptions imposed by modernism on realism, including those held by the artist himself. Yet, it was a process of constantly doubting (and denying), not just settling within the realm of painting, but an ongoing movement to observe, approach, understand, interpret, and internalize the subject (world). He struggles to capture the fleeting moments of everyday life and pulls in contemporary reality, and he gets to work conveying nuance. His work, which shows a momentary reversal by uploading an artist's realism, fits well with the dynamism of the characters and the behavior of objects as a painting that he has become an artist. The realistic sketch and the contrast of primary colors create a three-dimensional atmosphere by giving a sense of space and more possibility of the original characteristics of objects.