玩虎作 釋迦說法圖 연구

Abstract

To date, researchers have focused on artists in in the late Joseon Dynasty, however, we need to put more efforts on Modern Buddhist Paintings. This paper take a closer look at works of Whan-Ho(玩虎), mainly some of his great works the Sakamuni Sermon Painting(釋迦說法圖). For 30 years until in the 1930s, he worked in Pusan and Gyeong-Nam province, the southeast part of South Korea. All of his Sakamuni Sermon Paintings look similar, but the iconography of his works is not confined to traditional one and shows his unique iconography style. While inheriting the old iconongraphy, he made his own style of iconography, which shows in his great works. Moreover, while his works shows not only the relevance to other Buddhist Paintings from the artists in Gyeonggi Province in the 19th cen-tury but also his new decoration style which was used in the early 20th century. Under the circumstances, it is highly possible that there are lots of drafts of traditional Buddhist paintings and Whan-Ho's works of art in the place made Buddhist Painting(佛畵所) where he mainly worked with other monk-artists. His works in the place made Buddhist Painting must have his unique but great artistic merit with using the traditional paintings.