1930년대, 서정주의 시와 화단(畵壇)의 관련성 연구 ― 여성 이미지를 중심으로

Abstract

A Study on relation between Seo, Jung-Joo's poems and painting circles in 1930's- focusing on woman's image The purpose of this study is to search for the source of woman's image in Jung-Joo Seo's poems of 1930's by exploring their relation with contemporary trend of painting circles. Painting woman's nude was one of the main tendency in artistic circles of that time. Woman's nude was an erotic motive which provided sense of sexuality and fantasy to the artists of Korea, where there had been no tradition of nude painting until that time. It is noteworthy that the beauty of ideal body expressed in the western nude was a reference of beautiful body and also became a source of imagination in both fine art and popular culture of Korea. The images of woman's body painted by contemporary artist or carried in western painting books contributed to create a new visual culture. Through close interaction, artists and poets exchanged artistic inspiration each other. In particular, the painting books collected by the artists was a media which stimulated artistic sensitivity of poets. Seo loved the Renaissance paintings which expressed the characters of Greek myth and the Bible, and he also liked the works of van Gogh and Gauguin. He seemed to feel vital physical energy and to catch the images of power through those works. The feminine image contained in his poems was created through the imagination on the beautiful body described in nude paintings of that time. His poems of 1930's could be regarded as the first trial to introduce the feminine image, which was quite different from traditional one, into poetry. He could convert that image into creative, critical, and protesting motive to describe Korean society under Japanese colonial rule.