董其昌의 ‘所行’과 ‘所論’ 상호모순樣相 고찰

Dong Gi Chang(董其昌), who lived at the end of the Ming Dynasty, China, left ple nty of theories of paintings and writings through his books and their contents are m ainly focused on continuous self-culture and efforts for it. In practice, however, his li fe got far away from those theories he emphasized. From this view, it would be mea ningful to examine contradiction and inconsistency shown on his 'behavior' and 'opin ion.' First, I looked closely into his 'behavior' by dividing it into two in this article and examined how he had good relationships with politicians with different political views and got the position of the minister of culture and public information during the conf used era. And the main causes for this could be found in his talent of paintings and writings and the art of living. He did not care at all about ideology and mixed with various types of people who were considered to benefit him. And I investigated his g raft-happy official-like behaviors in Songgang where he lived after the retirement fro m his public official. He committed plunder, swindle including kidnap, violence and ev en rape of women. And he finally lost his all fortunes and got expelled by a popular uprising. I examined the importance of the relations between art and personality expressed i n his ‘opinion’ and then based on this, I inspected closely the theory of 'mind stillnes s and no desire', a completion of self-culture, he pursued in his old age. He did little speak about 'personality' himself but saying that the 'mind stillness and no desire' is a model that he had to pursue through his entire life. From many theories and pre-st udies of this thought, 'mind stillness and no desire' could be said the highest accomp lishment of personality. When considering it, we could find that such theory disagree d with his behaviors. Emperor Qian Long of the Qing Dynasty, China, liked very mu ch Dong Gi Chang's paintings and writings. In reality, it may not be easy to criticize or defame persons who were supported by rulers, which makes it more difficult for u s to fully understand Dong Gi Chang's works. But I think any discussion of the theo ries of his paintings and writings could not be enough without a severe consideration of the relations between art and personality of him.