篆刻의 方圓에 관한 周易美學的 硏究

Abstract

The seal engraving, one of traditional art in East Asia, has various aesthetic image and thought. The form of square and circle in it is closely connected to the thinking system of the science of I Ching易學. The form of square and circle in the science of I Ching expresses the image of the heaven and the earth or the rule of change in nature, which affects several fields in society and culture through many centuries. In this sense, the science of I Ching does not represent art directly, but it functions the principle of aesthetic structure giving high level of philosophical meaning to the form of square and circle directly or indirectly. In the science of I Ching, the shape of the heaven and the earth天圓地方, hado-nakseo河圖洛書, carpenter's square and circle方圓規矩 have important position in the moulding image and aesthetic thinking of seal engraving. Beyond the shape itself, the square and circle, a pair of aesthetic category, symbolize the changing and circulation of nature. The form makes the mutual relationship between them containing square in circle and circle in square. The image of square and circle constitutes the law of carpenter's square and circle, and its law expresses the changing rule of nature. The figurative form of square and circle in seal engraving embodies the structure of the science of I Ching and its rule of the change, which does not set limits to material itself. The image of square and circle made the oneness with aesthetic subject creates the invisible aesthetic symbol out of the shape of an object.