It was the artists who belonged to the leftist art circles rather than the ones from rightist art movements who felt the necessity to have discussions on the Korean national art and laid some specific schemes from 1945 until 1948. To read the tendency from a different angle, it could be understood as a part of the whole leftist cultural movement during the Liberation period which had to give emphasis to ‘Nationalism’ rather than to the individual values. Since then and through the period of Korean war and democratization movements of the 60s and 70s, the discussions on national art had been constantly repeated in some similar or different ways. This study aims to make sure that it is impossible to find some clues to read this flow altogether in a coherent way, and to lay a groundwork for future studies.