Yang Paeng-son, Sin Jam, Kim Jeong, Go Un, Choi Su-seong and Kim Gu who were Gimyo Sarim(Confucian scholars who fell victims of Gimyosahwa) were famous for their works of calligraphy and painting. They belonged to a literary circle led by Jo Gwang-jo ...
Yang Paeng-son, Sin Jam, Kim Jeong, Go Un, Choi Su-seong and Kim Gu who were Gimyo Sarim(Confucian scholars who fell victims of Gimyosahwa) were famous for their works of calligraphy and painting. They belonged to a literary circle led by Jo Gwang-jo and were appointed to Hyonryanggwa which had been revised for reformative politics. When a calamity of scholars occurred, they were in early thirties when they started their official career. At that time their teachers and colleagues were sentenced to death or exile, which gave them ineffaceable sorrow and despair. Confucian scholars represented their complex mental attitudes in their poetry and painting. Sorrowful indignation was not found in paintings by Choi Su-seong or Kim Jeong as they were sentenced to death immediately after the calamity, but Sin Jam painted lots of Chinese ink painting of bamboo after he was exiled to Jangheung and Yang Paeng-son were immersed in calligraphy and painting after he returned home. This study analysed how sensitivity of scholars was represented in their painting and poetry. It categorized their works into Sagunja(an oriental painting of plum-blossom, orchid, chrysanthemums and bamboo), landscape paintings and Youngmohwa(painting of animals) and discovered that their integrity, hermitage and unyielding spirit were represented through art. The Confucian scholars who felt sorrow for the calamity as well as the literary artists consolidated their friendship through writing poetry on each others` painting and represented their mental attitudes in their calligraphic writing and painting which led to emotional sympathy. Integrity and artistic sensitivity of Gimyo Sarim were succeeded to junior scholars, which became an important axis of Honam culture. The integrity of Go Un who drew tigers led to Go Gyeong-myong`s leadership of righteous troops. Yang Paeng-son`s integrity shown in his Chinese ink painting of bamboo led to righteous death of his son and grandsons. Soswaewon derived from Yang San-bo`s taste for the arts has become a main axis of Honam culture as a headquarter of poetry literature of the 16th century. Yun Gu`s artistic sensitivity was inherited to Yoon Seon-do and Yoon Du-seo, which was a base of innovative painting circle of late Joseon period. It influenced Dasan Jeong Yak-young, a maternal grand-son as well as Yoon Duk-hee and Yun Yong, and became an origin of artistic hometown Honam through Huh Ryon in the 19th century.