The innovative gist of the self-portrait series, “Um-woo”, “To-do”, “Chae-ga”, written by Park Tae Won in 1940`s lies in the discovery of private-novel as a new short fiction in Cho-Sun and the importation of pictorial technic to the novels. This study investigates the implications of the persona that Park discovered in his self-portrait series based on the dual persona of artist. The value of one is located family, the other is focused on literature. The mood in Park Tae Won's self-portrait series is 'melancholy' that represent 1940's of writers in Korean peninsula shows the transformation from the fine art creator in novels to the vocational writer in Japanese imperial periods. In other words, the personas that Park found in his novels purely represent the severed beings that had to move down to the economic and had to involve to the trivial things in daily lives. He had shown his private real lives through the novels. That's why his self-portrait series can be called private-novel imported from Japan. After the self-portrait series, Park had moved an vocational writer for the money in order to survive with family in 1940's called "New System on a war footing" from the fine artist. He had stoped the creative experimentation as a modernist writer, and he had started to write some historic novels or novels to encourage for Japanese colonialism. Therefore, he had needed an indulgence. His self-portrait series had gotten that meanings for himself.

The innovative gist of the self-portrait series, “Um-woo”, “To-do”, “Chae-ga”, written by Park Tae Won in 1940`s lies in the discovery of private-novel as a new short fiction in Cho-Sun and the importation of pictorial technic to the novels. This study investigates the implications of the persona that Park discovered in his self-portrait series based on the dual persona of artist. The value of one is located family, the other is focused on literature. The mood in Park Tae Won's self-portrait series is 'melancholy' that represent 1940's of writers in Korean peninsula shows the transformation from the fine art creator in novels to the vocational writer in Japanese imperial periods. In other words, the personas that Park found in his novels purely represent the severed beings that had to move down to the economic and had to involve to the trivial things in daily lives. He had shown his private real lives through the novels. That's why his self-portrait series can be called private-novel imported from Japan. After the self-portrait series, Park had moved an vocational writer for the money in order to survive with family in 1940's called "New System on a war footing" from the fine artist. He had stoped the creative experimentation as a modernist writer, and he had started to write some historic novels or novels to encourage for Japanese colonialism. Therefore, he had needed an indulgence. His self-portrait series had gotten that meanings for himself.

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self-portrait, series, private-novel, pictorial, specialization, melancholy