Lee Seung-Jio (1941-1990) made his debut as an artist in 1964 when the Origin Group was established. The Origin was an organization consisting of Western-style painters who graduated from Hongik University in 1964. The struggle to overcome abstract expressionism culminated in the joint exhibition of young painters in 1967, and it was through this that Lee revealed his distinctiveness.

Three groups - Mudongin, Origin and Sinjeondongin - participated in this exhibition. While artists of Mudongin and Shinjeondongin submitted many works with strong tendency of Neo-Dada or Nouveau Réalisme, painters of the Origin had a unified mood with geometric abstraction.

Even in the unified geometric tendency of the Origin, Lee's method distinguished itself from others as he tended toward optical art, escaping the flat structure that was the geometric tendency of the time.