Master Gagyeon Portrait of Yongchusa Temple, Hamyang

This painting, preserved at Yongchusa Temple, is a portrait of Master Gagyeon. Painted in colour on silk, it shows him as a full-length figure seated facing left on a folding chair (gyoui), with a footrest beneath his feet; he holds a Buddhist fly-whisk (bulja) in his left hand and its tassel in his right. His face is rendered in a yellowish-white pigment, with fine, pale ink outlines; his beard and hair are shown by first applying a light ink wash and then adding fine ink and white lines dotted on top. His monk's robe is a grey made by mixing indigo and black, the outer surface of his kasaya (outer robe) is vermilion and its lining ochre, and the folds of the clothing are rendered so that the underdrawing lines show through prominently. At the bottom of the picture a patterned mat sets the figure off from the background; it is outlined in vermilion and black, filled in with white pigment (hobun), and given fine horizontal lines in pale brown, or scored with a bamboo blade, to suggest its weave. Judging from the similarity of its technique — in bodily proportions, colouring, outline brushwork, rendering of the ears, and treatment of the patterned mat and background — to that of the Portrait of Great Master Muhak of Yongchusa Temple, Hamyang, made in 1781, the fifth year of King Jeongjo, this portrait is presumed to date from the same period, or at least from some time after the eighteenth century. The Master Gagyeon Portrait of Yongchusa Temple, Hamyang, is of academic value for the study of eighteenth-century portraits of eminent monks (josa yeongjeong).

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Hamyang, Gyeongnam

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료