근대 예술개념 안에서 서예의 이해

초록

Regardless of East, West, Old, and New, the attempt on securing visual satisfaction through the transformation of letter has been every period of human history. The examples are ‘Calligraphy in the West’ and ‘Calligraphy in the Northeastern Asia. It is called ‘Art of Penmanship’ in Korea, ‘Law of Penmanship’ in China, and ‘Way of Penmanship’ in Japan. However, as the Art of Penmanship is translated to ‘Calligraphy’, the distance between the art and the calligraphy which are unable to be understood in the same dimension in the concept of Modern Art turns to the different quality. Therefore, the question on the art of letter to the Western people is how calligraphy is accepted not as craft but as fine art, and the depressed feeling by Eastern Asian is why the Westerners fail to understand artistic quality of calligraphy. Borrowed the concept of Western Modern Art nowadays, this paper tries to understand fundamental difference between hand writing in movie poster or merchandise package through comprehending artistic attributes of calligraphy and provide useful reference for calligraphy education as fine art.

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