The Calligraphic Value of Korean Calligraphy by Youngbok Shin

Shin Young-bok is called by various titles. They are university professors, economists, life-threatening prisoners, death row prisoners, oriental classicists, writers, essayists, thinkers, intellectuals of the times, teachers of the times, and calligraphers. In this study, 'calligrapher Shin Young-bok' was illuminated. As his various titles suggest, the thoughts that blossomed in his tumultuous life fully permeated into his writings and served as a means of communication with contemporaneous people. The reason why this was possible is that it has established itself as an art familiar to the public while renewing the aspect of an independent character art that has broken away from traditional Korean calligraphy. The calligraphy art genre, which has emerged since the mid-1990s, meshes with the social and cultural trend that values individual taste and individuality. At the center of this is Shin Young-bok's Korean calligraphy. His Korean calligraphy is not very different from the calligraphy genre we recognize as it is used in various designs such as broadcasting or movie titles, book titles, and product logos. In other words, his handwriting has no awkwardness in the modern calligraphy art culture. Accordingly, by analyzing the calligraphic expressiveness of Shin Young-bok's Korean calligraphy, it was possible to find the important value of his letter art. First, there is a formal beauty that implies individuality and emotion. Second, it belongs to an art genre that reflects the times. Third, it is a letter art that the public can get close to. As such, Shin Yeong-bok's Korean calligraphy is in a pioneering position in that it has deviated from the reproduction of traditional calligraphy and realized the formative beauty of a new typeface, and has artistic significance as a milestone in the ever-changing calligraphy art. It is clear that the current calligraphy art culture is a product of the expansion of traditional calligraphy, and it can be seen as a natural change in calligraphy art according to the needs of the times. As long as the lives of people who use letters are conducted, the direction of art to contain emotions in letters will lead the development of calligraphy art culture.