조선후기 화승 관허당 설훈(寬虛堂 雪訓) 연구

Abstract

Gwanheodang Seol‐hoon is a representative monk painter who acted mainly in the Gyeonggi‐do area during the late 18th century. He attempted several experimental works in those days and left Buddhist paintings of creative styles, and one of them is Jijangbosaldo at the Suta‐sa Temple, which is a Buddhist painting depicting a crowd in rows, a rare style in the Chosun Dynasty. Similar types of Buddhist paintings can be found in the late Koryo Dynasty or the early Chosun Dynasty, but are hardly found in the late Chosun Dynasty. As evidenced by this example, Seol‐hoon in the late 18th century is presumed to be a monk painter who had his own style of painting and influenced many other monk painters. Materials on Seol‐hoon found so far were all from Gyeonggi‐do, so researchers have believed that he was a monk painter from Gyeonggi‐do. With the discovery of new materials and his works, however, a number of differences from the findings of previous research have been disclosed. When the painting records of Seol‐hoon’s Buddhist paintings extant were analyzed and his traces were examined, it was found that he started his career as an assistant monk painter for Samjangbosaldo at the Sinreuk‐sa Temple under his teacher Gakchong. From that time on, his activities were not limited to Gyeonggi‐do but extended to Gyeongsangdo,Chungcheong‐do and Hamgyeong‐do. In addition, praising poems for Seol‐hoon in Haebungjip, records on the Buddhist project at the Yongju‐sa Temple, etc. suggest that he attained a very high status as a monk painter. Based on the results of this study, it was concluded that, different from the findings of previous research, Seol‐hoon inherited the lineage of Euigyeom and Gakchong and pursued his own painting style through moving from Gyeongsang‐do to Gyeonggi‐do. He influenced his student Shinseon as well as the painting styles of Gyeonggi‐do in the 19th century.