개화기 민화 고사산수도의 유형과 특징

Abstract

Narrative figure paintings refer to the paintings that depict stories of historical and memorablefigures or events that have to do with kings, the wise, heroes, poets or recluses. The narrativefigure paintings took a major part of the folk paintings that flourished between the late 19th andthe earlier 20th centuries. What is noteworthy is the fact that some of them began to go withoutfigures and took the form of landscape paintings. In this paper, they are referred to as narrativelandscape paintings. The advent of narrative landscape paintings was closely related to the literary trend of the time. It was the time when the popular lyrics such as pansori, gasa lyrics, danga lyrics, and japga lyricswere flourishing, and they served in the purpose of the enlightenment of the people. For thatgoal, they actively cited the stories of historical events that would encourage people to follow thelofty spirit. Some of the lyrics were based entirely on the heroes from history or historical eventslike “Chohanga(楚漢歌)”, or “Jeokbyeokga(赤壁歌). Also, many of the lyrics dealt with thesubject of touring noted sites and sounds, in which case stories from history were cited. As thetourist attractions the sites that were related to the historic heroes, events, or literary figures werelisted and enumerated. Such a trend must have influenced the production of the narrativelandscape paintings. The narrative landscape paintings have the following characteristics. First of all, some of themminimize the size of the figures or even remove the figures and are painted as landscapepaintings. Second, some have the place name as the title and serve as the paintings of scenicbeauty. Third, some of them represent the subject with symbolic icons instead of figures, Also,some of the narrative landscape paintings consist a set of folding screed together with some of theEight Views of Xiaoxiang River, which means that the narrative landscape paintings areconsidered the painting of China’s scenic sites.