In Contemplation of Hyewon Sin Yun-bok’s Hyewonhawcheop(蕙園畫帖)

Abstract

Hyewonhawcheop(蕙園畫帖) by Hyewon Sin Yun-bok(申潤福, 1758?-1817 or later) is a collection of paintings in a literary artist’s style mainly focusing on landscape painting with figures. This collection of paintings contains two pages of HaengSeo(a semi-cursive style of writing) and six pages of paintings with a variety of genres, including letters, Sagunja(Four Gracious Plant Painting), landscape painting with figures, and paintings of Taoist immortals and Buddhist Saints and Arhats. These works of art help enhance insight also on his preference for literary arts that had not received much attention due to genre paintings. As Hyewonhawcheop carries a government seal recording “Hyewon, lunar July of the year Mu Jin” and other variety of seals, including “yu-eo-yeah”, “sin-ga-gwon-in”, it can be inferred that this was produced when Sin Yun-bok was 50 years old. Since his other works’ production dates are unknown, this can be a reference work for timepoint. This paper focuses on this significance, analyzing and contemplating on each work in Hyewonhawcheop to understand Sin Yun-bok and his works.