『서상기 』 삽화의 이지동도와 주제의 연역

Abstract

‘The Romance of The West Chamber’, which produced the most illustrated versions in the Ming-Qing Dynasty, is the accumulation of the visual experience of the artists and shows a variety of interpretations of the work. This paper focuses on the frequent appearance of Yiji Dongdo, and attempts to trace the common interpretation of painters’ works. Yiji Dongdo is a painting that depicts people and scenery together in different spaces in the same time zone. It is used as a method to represent the narrative illustration of Ming-Qing Dynasty, and was intensively expressed in various spatial methods especially in ‘The Romance of The West Chamber’. In this article, we have grouped them into five types, such as panorama space, semi-transparent space, overlapping space, glimpse space, and dream space, according to the characteristics of the space. As the two main characters in the illustration pass through these five spaces, their emotional space gradually approaches each other. Sometimes they collide or overlap and grow. In particular, changes in emotions are focused on heroine, and it is important to protect and grow women’s diverse emotions and psychology. Sun feihu has explosive power on the outside, and Zheng hang on the inside has a lude and abrupt approach, but Zhangsheng expresses indirectly through poetry, music, and letters, and approaches with care and affection. In his work, what is important in the expression of affection is not a sudden decision or a clear statement, but a secrecy that consists of metaphors and suggestions. It also says the fact that confirmation of a woman’s feelings does not come suddenly, but takes place over a long period of time and a long process. The two spaces are attracted to each other in the repeated semi-transparent space, go through the process of colliding and conflicting, and eventually reach the process of mutual acceptance through overlapping spaces. ‘The Romance of the West Chamber’ specifically unfolds the aspect of love between a man and a woman that belongs to the realm of emotion and psychology, which is not taught in the authoritative Confucian scriptures. The painter used Yiji Dongdo to illustrate the subject of the play by depicting these processes. The work teaches men and women how to love by showing them how to approach each other. I think that this will give a considerable hint to the discussion of the subject of the work.