《西溪遺墨》을 통해 본 朴世堂家의 서풍

Abstract

This study examined the calligraphic style of a family, through Seogyeyumuk that was written by Seogye (西溪) Bak Sedang (1629~1703) and designated as cultural treasure presently by government. Though not known as calligrapher, he was the owner of expert eye on paintings and calligraphic works. It was Bak Taeyu and Bak Taebo, his sons, who made the family receive the spotlight in the field. Famous for good deeds and excellent writings, two sons were the typical literary men and calligraphers of the late 17th Century who were celebrated for leading the so called An Jin Gyeong style (顔眞卿體). Seogye-yumuk consists mainly of the poems and letters Bak Sedang wrote to his pupil Lee Jeongsin. In the last part of it, several letters of Bak Taebo were included. The poems, which are full of the desire for unworldly natural life, were written during the period Bak Sedang retired to Surak Mountain in Yangju. His penmanship accepted An Jin Gyeong by much in the printed writing style but slightly or limitedly in the semicursive and very cursive writing style. The accepting trend of An Jin Gyeong style in the late 17th Century and the penmanship of Bak Taeyu and Bak Taebo could be analyzed as follow: As the recognitions of all time literary men on An Jin Gyeong who was the symbol of ‘loyalty’ and ‘reformative calligraphic ways’ had surfaced aggressively in the late 17th Century, those day’s dislike to and the movement to break from the fading Han Ho style were formed. Such atmosphere resulted in aggressive acceptance of An Jin Gyeong style. The recognition of literary men and the time spirit demanding calligraphy’s qualitative change became the background of high valuation given to the integrity, loyalty and excellent An style penmanship of Bak brothers.