〈몽유도원도夢遊桃源圖〉(1447)의 이상향과구도의 현대적 차용- 본인의 작품〈몽유도夢遊圖〉(2012)을 중심으로 -

Abstract

In connection with visualization of a concept of utopia in modern art, this study intends to suggest diversity of meaning and expression of utopia in the past and contemporary society by analyzing <Mongyudo> of this painter by linking it with <Mongyu Dowondo> of Ahn-Gyeon. Utopia originally means a paradise expressing human desire and visualized expression is represented in various forms and meanings even in the history of art under transition of times. Particularly in landscape painting, it is differently conceptualized and expressed depending on transition of times. From the past, meaning of landscape in the Orient is a symbolic material of deviant human and natural space in a spiritual terms and it played an important role in expressing Oriental world view. <Mongyu Dowondo> under this expression and meaning of landscape was the first work representing a form of paradise in the most Korean style and its exceptional composition and creative expression were excellent as it expressed a concept of utopia as a world of dream by reinterpreting it. This work represents an abstract concept as the most concrete form. Under this background, this painter produced <Mongyudo> by applying expression of virtual world based on the work of Ahn-Gyeon and in a process of visualizing a meaning of utopia, diversity of virtual world was expressed by combining traditional painting expression with image borrowing. Mixed expression of various images in a painting not only expressed diversity of utopia but also focused on differentiation of expression. A concept of utopia has been conceptualized to other aspect depending on the current of times. Outcome of this painter is represented by an eventual concern as to how to unfold abstract topic based on material and expressional method in the modern landscape painting. In a process of unfolding abstract concept as simplified formative language, the work of <Mongyudo> pursues a trend that 'traditionality' and 'experimentality' approach modern visualization of utopia concept and its goal is to embody utopia that is not present. Resultantly, the work of the painter expresses meaning of real utopia in a fragmented image of real society reflected in an actual and virtual world. Combination of images of virtual world is an image of Dowondo in another reality being reinterpreted and created by the painter. Significance of this attempt is that width of landscape painting could be eventually widened in the Korean modern art.