실경(實景)에서 시경(詩境)으로 : 동초(東初) 이현옥(李賢玉, 1909-2000)의 생애 및 작품 세계 연구 = From Pictorial Reality to Poetic Realm: A Study on the Life and Artistic World of Dongcho Lee Hyun-ok (1909–2000)

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This study examines the life and artistic career of Dongcho Lee Hyun-ok (1909–2000), a Korean painter of East Asian painting, situating the artist and her work empirically within the historiography of modern and contemporary Korean art. Lee was a female artist who trained at the Cheongjeon Painting Studio during the Japanese colonial period and received multiple awards at the Joseon Art Exhibition. In the 1940s, she pursued a highly unusual course of study at the Shanghai Art Academy, at a time when artistic training abroad typically centered on Japan, and continued her artistic activities after liberation, earning a Special Prize at the National Art Exhibition of the Republic of Korea.
Despite these accomplishments, Lee lived largely outside institutional art circles from the late 1950s onward, which contributed to the absence of sustainable scholarly attention to her work. To address this gap, this research reconstructs her artistic training and exhibition history by drawing on primary archival sources while reexamining her major works. In particular, this study analyzes the trajectory from her early landscape practice grounded in direct observation to semi-abstract landscapes characterized by formal reduction accompanied by expanded chromatic experimentation, thereby elucidating the formal characteristics of her art. Furthermore, by examining her participation in joint exhibitions of women artists and group formations around the time of liberation, this study demonstrates her contribution to the formation of a collective foundation for women painters working in East Asian painting.