The genre painting in Korea has got a very long tradition since Koguryeo, and especially it flourished at late Chosun period(1700-1850). And this dissertation seeks to illuminate the features and the historical changes in the Genre painting at late Ch...
The genre painting in Korea has got a very long tradition since Koguryeo, and especially it flourished at late Chosun period(1700-1850). And this dissertation seeks to illuminate the features and the historical changes in the Genre painting at late Chosun period .
They called the genre painting Sokhwa(俗畵) in this times. Sokhwa originally meant the secular painting, it is the opposite concept of literati painting. But its meaning changes into a genre painting in this time. It is believed this trend reflects the change of the view of value at the turning point toward modernization. Scholar-amateur who had sought after only a elegant world before also accepted a secular world with a elegant world.
The scholar-amateur such as Yun, Du-seo(尹斗緖), Cho Young-seuk(趙榮祐) opened with the foundation of the genre paintig in the early 18 century. He changed landscape painting with figures into genre painting.
After the late 18 century, the academic painter such as Kim Hong-do(金弘道), Kim Tuk-sin(金得臣), Sin Yun-bok(申潤福) evolved further to combine the style of landscape painting with figure. and the leading style of the genre painting was fonned. But this style lost this impetus and the style of genre painting got diversified in the middle and late 19 century, and the pratical use of genre painting grew to export painting and illustration of text-book.
As we have seen above, the genre painting of late Chosun period is production of the transition period toward modern and there is more emphasis on the relationship between a landscape painting with figure.
Also lots of works of painting are extant from late Chosun period, and they show diverse and creative painting techniques which can be distinguished from those of the other times. In the figure painting of late Chosun period, about 15 drawing methods are confirmed.