전통회화의 이해를 위한 우의(寓意)와 상징(象徵)체계 연구 - 동식물 그림을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this study lies in seeking for understanding about traditional painting through various allegories and symbols which were used for traditional painting. Traditional painting must be awkward and cryptic for the students of today growing surrounded by the environment strongly influenced by Western culture. A correct education of traditional painting getting over such problem requires aesthetical approach along with the understanding of the meaning and effective value inherent in the traditional paintings. It's because there lies aesthetic enjoyment of our predecessors and their ideal they dreamed of and realistic desire in the traditional paintings. particularly, those paintings with the materials of animals & plants are distinctive in that matters. Such allegory and symbol are essential for understanding traditional painting and getting a great deal of help necessary to know and commune with the spirits and lives of our ancestors penetrated in those painting. Besides, they are also the elements enabling us to recognize anew the traditional painting more closely and as realistic paintings, In this sense, the allegory and symbol of the traditional painting hold sufficient usefulness and values to be understanding about traditional paintings.