書體에 나타난 書藝美學 연구 ― 漢字의 書體演變을 중심으로 ―

Abstract

Calligraphy is the essence of the Oriental art which is expressed in the subject of characters. Especially, the calligraphy of Chinese characters was expressed into the different forms and styles extending and changing to the various styles of calligraphy. In the early prehistory, the Chinese characters were only signs on the pottery with the nature of characters. But as the time went by, the signs changed into Jeonseo(篆書), Yeseo(隸書), Choseo(草書), Haeseo(楷書), Haengseo(行書).Calligraphers made the various styles of calligraphy with their own styles from the Tang age. In this thesis, starting from the Age of the Warring states which showed up the big change in the calligraphic styles, I'd like to consider the religious consciousness which was appeared in the course that the calligraphic styles for three periods(夏, 殷.周) had changed to Gapgolmun(甲骨文), Keummun(金文), and Joomun(籒文) at first. And I tried to contemplate the influence of Beopgasasang(法家思想) (scholars insisted that respecting the law and inflicting the heavy punishment was the basic principle for governing a country) which was showed in the course of changing Daejeon(大篆) to Sojeon(小篆). And also, I tried to research the variously changing process of calligraphic styles and the background of thought in the completed point since the system of old characters changed to the system of Keummunja. I'd like to divide the content into 4 parts, changing process to Yeseo and aesthetic consciousness, changing process to Choseo and the thought of Zen, changing process to Haeseo and the spirit of respecting laws, and changing process to Haengseo and the thought for profound learning. We can learn that the research into the changing process of calligraphic styles through many remains was not created by one person, but also was gradually developed for long time by the needs of the pragmatism and aestheticism. We can learn the changing process of calligraphic style was not only change of forms but also closely related to the literature, history and philosophy of each time. In addition, we can say it was related to the confucianism, the Buddhism and Taoism. Today, we live in the varying information-oriented society. Calligraphic style is varying, as well. Through this research, I hope many people will understand the present conflicts between traditional calligraphy and applied calligraphy with the presentation of direction for the future calligraphy. Futhermore, I expect them to have great concern about the calligraphy aesthetics.