한국 암각화와 북방아시아 지역 암각화의 조형적인 특징 비교 연구

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to determine how the origin of Korean boulder petroglyphs had relevance to Northern Asian petroglyphs. Figurative characteristics of petroglyphs in the two regions could be analyzed by defining similarities and differences. Petroglyphs in two regions shared common process of production and development of formation. It showed that process of petroglyphs' production in the two regions had significant meaning of formative art progress in their society. Korean petroglyphs had distinctive characteristics in their forming process. After they were acquired visual verisimilitude, their truth to nature faded away as they became abstract. In order to describe hunting animals, they simplified the objects' essence of characteristics as an illustrated animal book. The figures were independently composed on boulders one by one, not in coordination with each figure. Thus, overall sense of mood was rather being passive than active in those composition. In addition to being passive mood, such simple and abstract figures, discovered in “Chunjeon-ri” and “Chilpo-ri”, could not be found in Northern Asia region. Northern Asian petroglyphs were similar to each piece that was formed under the same tradition of expression. Therefore, they expressed objects in a realistic sense. They conveyed active feeling that they focused on describing movements of hunting to express their realistic action. Their descriptions were empathized with exaggeration and distortion that differed from their strong desire for expressing reality. And the petroglyphs turned into picturesque objects with their artistic expression. The petroglyphs were composed in coordination with each figure on boulders, which was meant to express. In addition, each figure was displayed independently, yet characteristic of the overall mood in the compositions was similar to Korean petroglyphs. These different methods in expression and composition sought to define the differences of aesthetic formation between the two regions. According to these factors, Korean and Northern Asian petroglyphs differed in cultural aspects.