葦滄 吳世昌의 金石學과 『書之鯖』

Abstract

Wichang(葦滄) Oh, Sechang(吳世昌, 1864-1953) is a compiler of 『Keunyeok seohwajing(槿域書畵徵)』, which became a foundation stone of the study on paintings and calligraphic works in Korean history. He succeeded 'Chusakeumseokhak' while he developed 'Seodokeumseokhak' and left many pieces of Jebal(題跋) that most of it was about identification through paintings and calligraphic works and antique in general. The chief reasons that Wichang had a profound knowledge in epigraphy were social background at that time and his family circumstances. Shilhaksasang, which made in Jungin(中人) family who served as an official interpreter over the period of eight generations, and pieces of paintings and calligraphic works and epigraphic remains became great foundation of creating Wichang's Keumseokhak. Especially, with the influence of his father, Youngmae(亦梅) Oh, Kyeongseok(吳慶錫, 1831-1879), Oh Sechang succeeded the epigraphy of Chusa Kim, Jeonghi's Keumseokhak and developed it on his own style with the material of the scholars of epigraphy in the era of Chung. As a result, he took the unique position as a connoisseur of paintings and calligraphic works in those days. Especially, 『Seojijeong(書之鯖)』, which is the result of the study about a typical relics in Korea and China, took the style of using Ssanggu for eighty-four pieces of epigraph in Korea and China, and writind Jebal about the unearthed sites of relics, calligraphers, analysis of calligraphic styles, and calligraphic reviews, etc. This material can be the best work of the study on Wichang's Keumseokhak, and the finalized work of 'Seodokeumseokhak(書道金石學)'. These study on Wichang's Keumseokhak pursued concurrence of arts and sciences through the process of making work of art while it analyse noble texts like Gabgolmun, Keummun, Seokgomun, Jeonpaemun, Wadangmun, Jeonmun, Bigalmeong, Mayaegakseok, etc, and show the analysis of calligraphic style and the criticism about calligraphic style in Jebal form. And it accomplished the determination of Korean Keumseokhak.