18세기 문학에서의 색채 표현과 강세황의 회화

Abstract

Kang Sehwang(姜世晃), as an influential literati-painter acknowledged for his painting with colors in the mid-eighteenth century, used color-pigments based on the newly accepted Chinese colorful prints and paintings. It is notable that representative literary scholars of the late-eighteenth century of Joseon, Yi dekmu(李德懋) and Park Jiwon(朴趾源), used various color-vocabulary to describe natural objects more vividly. The color-vocabulary Yi and Park used are not usded in the previous literary works of Joseon, but were from the same Chinse book of colorful prints which Kang used. This inter-relationship of the visual art and verbal expression did not only a simple result produced in the same cultural environment but also a meaningful phenomenon of visual image’s leading role in the color-sense and expression at the same time. Expecially because Kang Sehwang was an well-known scholar and a prolific artist, it would be said that Kang’s colorful paintings exerted a strong influence with the change in the literary sense of color. Kang Sehwang, as a poet also, employed color-vocabulary to explain his own paintings or describe natural scenes. Kang’s color-words in his poem were less abundant than those of Yi Dekmu and Park Jiwon, but thery are meaningful in that Kang’s color words can be an evidence of Kang’s perception of colors for his painting works, and that Kang’s colors on his painting were leading the color sense at that time.