Painting restoration/copy is the art and science of restoring old and/or damaged paintings back to their original state. Painting copy is essential part of learning predecessor’s painting skills and it is also utilized to preserve and life-extending...
Painting restoration/copy is the art and science of restoring old and/or damaged paintings back to their original state. Painting copy is essential part of learning predecessor’s painting skills and it is also utilized to preserve and life-extending of original paintings by making replica of original paintings. Painting restoration/copy has significant meaning as an inheritance of cultural painting legacy and as well is valuable as the replicas could be utilized in exhibitions or used for research materials instead of original paintings.
There are only handfuls of painters exercising restoration/copy of Royal Court Ceremonial Painting and accordingly, there are not so many of examples of restoration/copy of Royal Court Ceremonial Painting, moreover, the research of copy restoration process of paintings is extremely limited. Furthermore, in case of Royal Court Ceremonial Painting, it is even more difficult to restore original state of paintings as there is no remaining historical record describing the process of Royal Court Ceremonial Painting. Going forward, to secure more advanced restoration of Royal Court Ceremonial Painting, systematic researches and footages of painting process is indispensable. <MUSINJINCHANDO> is the Royal Court Ceremonial that painted by the best painter selected by Joseon Kingdom in the mid - 19th century(Heonjong). <MUSINJINCHANDO> is a piece of art with highly esteemed quality and expertise of the painting as a Royal Court Painting with its neat structure, delicate line, and terse and harmonious coloring. <MUSINJINCHANDO> found to be worthwhile to restoration/copy not only because it is showing significant differences in terms of structure and the manners of expression in paintings compared to other paintings drew before mid - 19th century but also those newly established manners of expression and structure influenced to the post paintings to <MUSINJINCHANDO>.
This report has been researched the procedures of restoration/copy of Royal Court Ceremonial paintings via the actual implementation of restoration/copy of <MUSINJINCHANDO> by the author herself. Royal Court Ceremonial paintings depicted Royal Court ceremonies and lifestyle of Joseon Dynasty in detail and therefore it has been contributing to understand Royal Court ceremonies in Joseon Dynasty. In view of this, restoration/copy of <MUSINJINCHANDO> has significant meaning as it inherent the culture of Royal Court and specifically valuable as the restoration/copy of such painting will be led to preservation of traditional painting skills, materials as well as the art of restoration/copy to successors. I wish this research could be served as a foundation for prevalent trends on reproduction of Royal Court Ceremonial paintings in the future.