古와 今의 變奏ː豹菴 姜世晃의 寫意山水畵

Abstract

Gang Sehwang(1713-1791) is one of the most important literary painters active in the late Joseon period. This article considered the aesthetic principles and characteristics of paintings focused on Gang Sewhang’s conceptual landscape paintings. Gang Sehwang took the ancient important as the ideals for the painting. To study the ancient, he copied lots of Chinese paintings focused on the southern school paintings and different painting manuals. He mainly chose to study many masters who were active in the comparatively recent periods like Ming and Ching dynasties. He specially set the goal at the masters of southern school in the Ming period like Shen Chou and Tung Chichang. He also studied many literary painters of Joseon dynasty. He also took it important to pursuit the different, gi奇 and the new. He pursued his own world of art even though he copied lots of different works of Chinese masters and painting manuals. And he seeked after the painting without vulgarity. To try not to be vulgar in paintings, he took it important to read and experience a lot. He cultivated the three excellence in poetry, calligraphy, and paintings as the ideal for the literary painting. As a way to accomplish this principle in the field of painting, he paid much attention to the paintings based on poetry. His final goal of painting was to settle down the new tradition of the Korean literary painting. He studied and copied the senior Koran literary painters, including Yun Duseo(1668-1715), who was the pioneer in the field of literary painting in the late Joseon period. The Korean literary painting called as Yuhwa儒畵 by the literati in the 18th century and pursued by Gang Sewhang was transmitted to the junior literati active in the 19th century like Sin Wui, a representative literary painter and Yi Yuwon, an important collector and became a legacy of the literary painting in the 19th century.