풍자개(豊子愷) 만화의 예술 풍격 연구

Abstract

Fengzikai(豊子愷, 1898-1975) is considered as the founder of Chinese Literati Cartoons(文人抒情漫画) and the father of Chinese Cartoons. He who had experienced directly the dramatically changing era of the modern China including the Sino-Japanese War and the birth of New China, expressed the feelings of happiness, anger, sadness, and merriness of life through the art genre of ‘cartoon’ and parodied metaphorically the realities at that tim. Fengzikai’s cartoons contain the literati style, and it was made of his highly literature training and skilled ink drawing and writing through the traditions and reflected the poetic feelings(詩情) and painting meanings(畵意) of the traditional Chinese literati painting. He emphasized that cartoon was a comprehensive art genre combining literature and painting, and created the artworks having dual meanings of beauties of forms and literature. His cartoons include natural poetic meanings with highly artistic senses, and this is a unique charm of his cartoons different from other ones, as being a powerful means to make audience think of it constantly. The poetic meanings that he tried to put in his artworks are universal living scenes of our lives, human feelings and emotions in daily life, and empathies among people’s hearts. Therefore, his cartoons provoke broad common feelings with sincere emotions and move people’s hearts. The original artistic style of Fengzikai’s cartoons like a kind of ‘poems’ is a new creation, holding the important position in the history of cartoons and arts and having tremendous influences on the next generations’ artists.