정선이 그린 정호⋅정이 고사인물화

Abstract

This thesis is to identify the visual characteristics of Jeon Seon’s gosa paintings of JeongHo and JeongE. JeongHo and JeongE were Confucians during the Northern Song dynasty, brothers who were born only a year apart, and intellectual companions who helped open a new chapter for Taoism. They are remembered as founders of a new Confucianism, who gave absolute influences to Zhu xi as well as pioneering scholars with spirited personalities whose exploits are well known and without comparison. JeongEGoSado, which is composed of a number of subjects such as banghwasuryu, jeongmunipseol, and bugang, It is also the kind of painting that he produced in the biggest quantities. The genres of JeongHo and JeongEGoSaDo as painted by Jeong Seon, belong to the tradition of SanSui figurative painting, featuring gosa seated within a natural background, using softly colored water and ink painting based on the NamJong style (a southern school of Chinese painting). Like other gosa figurative painting by JeongSeon, in which he depicted the daily lives of gosa, he incorporated the SanSui figurative painting techniques that developed from the traditions of the mid-Joseon period, and represented JeongHo and JeongE, who were known to have enjoyed pungryu and nakdo. According to literature, before Jeong Seon the gosa paintings of JeongHo and JeongE were known to have predominantly been incorporated within SeongHyeonGoSaCheop. In the 16thCentury, JeongHo and JeongE featured within picture books or wall screens along with the followers of Confucian from that time. In this way the main characters depicted in these paintings were from an Confucian Diagrams. ByeongHwaSipChan by EoYu-bong – a painter from the same period as Jeong Seon – helped ensure that gosa painting of saints from the Song dynasty, employing SanSui figurative painting techniques, became established in the early 18thCentury. As depicted in Jeong Seon’s paintings, JeongHo and JeongE appeared as neither powerful officials nor majestic leaders. Even though they were analytical and logical Confucians, we are reminded that they knew how to find amusement within nature, and to find relief from everyday worldly concerns as genuine intellectuals pursuing fundamental truths. Jeong Seon created a new style of his own while interpreting the old legends of JeongHo and JeongE.