This paper investigates the korean characteristics, symbolism, working background, types and periods expressed in the portrait of Yi Dynasty.
Korean portrait has been expressed by an instinctive expression from the prehistoric age and as a pictorial ...
This paper investigates the korean characteristics, symbolism, working background, types and periods expressed in the portrait of Yi Dynasty.
Korean portrait has been expressed by an instinctive expression from the prehistoric age and as a pictorial meaning it was expressed through the wall painting of an old tomb in Komyo of the period of three kingdoms, and the portrait of Yi Dynasty was based on the production of portrait by color dictionary in the Unified shilla and the development of painting for Taoist hermit with supernatural powers according to the voguo of Buddhism and Taoism. in Koryo age.
Yi Dynasty can be divided into three periods as following :
The early period was mainly centered around the portrait expression by Ideology for Confusion Discourse and prevailed Idea for Skill Cheap-Treated by class consciousness.
In the middle period, positivism though was risen by disorder of society due to two great wars and the people consciousness was begun to develop, and the portrait developed by the introduction of western painting technique was prevalent.
The late period showed the character painting as a genre painting and caricature that have strong popular and koren originality with actual scene landscaps by Jung, Hwan(1676-1759)and the participation degree of common people for painting became high, and so it showed pictorial symbolic beauty in the character expression.
As a result, the portrait in Yi Dynasty presents folk, popular and original painting modes thanks to exploitation and development of subjects as the korean meaning
Therefore, this study is to review the above mentioned characteristics, to examine a new understanding about the traditionality of korean painting and symbolism of character expression in the painting of Yi Dynasty, and to explain how did Yi Dynasty's painting influence our modern korean portrait. Also this study investigates the history of portrait and Yi Dynasty's portrait, analyzes the symbolism of character expression through the background of the times by types and explains the characteristics of their symbolic meanings.