In the context of art history, Lee Dong Seok's oeuvres are not so easily explained as thought. Though they may recall a German neo-expressionism style at a glance, they are not so intuitive, radical and fast painted as most neo-expressionism paintings are. To the contrary, they are rather more predicative or even more epic. On the other hand, Lee Dong Seok's paintings are likely to be thought to be surrealistic. But they are not so much rooted in the subconscious world as those paintings by a Dali or a Magritte are.

Actually, Lee Dong Seok's paintings show a certain uniqueness that is not seemingly unique. Even though they may be kinds of "deja vu", it is hard to classify them to a certain category. It is probably more helpful for us to approach his oeuvres rather in their psychological aspects than in their stylistic one.

The psychology of Lee Dong Seok's paintings is something we envisage through the imaginations of another possible world - despairs, alienations, grimness, silences, and anxieties. It is something similar to an embarrassment experienced at some recent post-modern films. As if many a post-modern film spreads an imagination to surpass the limitation of life and death or to go over the 4-dimensional world, which has been thought to be insurmountable as a human being, so does the psychology of Lee Dong Seok's oeuvres.

The figures come up with Lee Dong Seok's paintings are depicted as intriguingly entangled, of which their several layers of nerve tissues and organs are complicatedly intertwined like an electric circuit as if we see an anatomical chart for the medical doctors. Like a circuit board that is supposed to be moved only by electrical energy, the images seem to exist only as physical status devoid of the souls, or, if any, they seem to maintain a certain incomplete life force and appear to look for something desperately.

As a whole, his figures are projected as existences standing on the crossroad of life and non-life. They may be a reflection of the artist's personal experiences on the one hand, or an experiment in the period of post-modernism where people throw any assumption to the possible world at the threshold of the end of history and philosophy. To some aspects, it may seem to be groundless or of no sense. But it is an expression of imagination to surpass the limitations of this world that have been thought 'inescapable' as a human being. Indeed everyday, we hear the news of the new challenges to decode the secret of ageing or to duplicate an extinct animal through reading its DNA, which have been thought never ever possible, in the field of genetic engineering. Imagination can become actuality and Lee Dong Seok's oeuvres throw a new visionary light to such a possible world.

Lately, there comes a little change in his oeuvres compared with his previous ones. In "Thinking of a pregnant woman", which betrays the wonder of conceiving new life, or in "the XX world" or "the republic of pigs", which casts a light on our alienation surrounded by every evil and greed, his previous concerns on individual psychology seems to move to social and collective psychology. Even so, the psychology of alienation and grimness that we have felt in his oeuvres in general is unwearyingly as ever.