남도회화의 성격과 발전과정 -허련과 허건의 인정욕구를 중심으로

Abstract

This study examined the character of Namdo Painting through Sochi(小癡) Heo Ryeon and Namnong(南農) Heo Geon’s Paintings. Sochi Heo Ryeon from a southern island of Korea and Namnong Heo Geon from Mokpo gained fame as painters and created their own styles,focusing on their environment and effort to overcome it in an emotional aspect. Artists from Jindo including Heo Ryeon, his son Heo Hyeong, and his grandson Heo Geon changed their positions by overcoming cultural isolation of the island and suffering from poor reality through steady efforts. As well, they prepared a base where Namdo has become a town of traditional Namdo painting. The most important factor Heo Ryeon overcame isolation and succeeded as a painter was his persistence, but his strong need to be recognized as a literary artist was a catalyst. Heo Ryeon was ranked as one of the best painter in the 19th century, but his descendants inherited artistic talent and pain of poverty from him. They continued to work hard to be recognized as painters defeating against poverty and Heo Geon was willing to accept changes in his painting style for success. His change brought pro∼Japanese and artistic diversity to Honam painting circle simultaneously. The vein of Namjong Literary Art starting from Heo Ryeon has been connected with Namhwa Research Center(南畵硏究院) in Mokpo led by Heo Geon and Yeonjinhoi(鍊眞會) in Gwangju led by Heo Baekryon(許百鍊). As the vein of traditional painting starting from Jindo led to Mokpo and Gwangju, it became a major painting circle, which indicates that painting of the southwest coast became a base of Namdo painting circle. That is, it has a significant meaning in that the vein was distributed from an isolated island to inland, and from the peripheral area to center.