Chinese Calligraphy
• Been around for thousands of years
• works towards aspects of being beautiful and elegant
• Is just as important as music, sculpture, painting, dancing
• Closely linked to daily chinese life
• Is practiced by more of the population than any other art form.
• Is a requirement for art courses at chinese universities
• inspires other arts and vice versa
Book -
Chinese Calligraphy
By Tingyou ChenCambridge University Press, 2011
Chinese Printmaking
Chinese printmaking started in the 1930s but people focussed more on wood block prints that were also popular in Japan at the time. there was a close relation between china and japan in terms of art at that time as japan was under sakoku so all of its borders were shut to the west, making china a primary trading point. After there became "New China", the main arts were all focussed on by artists which saw an increase in their popularity and importance.
"After the founding of New China3, the situation changed out of all proportion. Oil painting, traditional Chinese painting, watercolour painting and gouache painting all under-went massive developments. Not only was printing established in the academies as a specialist area of study but, as well as woodcut printing workshops, lithography and intaglio workshops were starting to be set up. The fundamental tech-niques of making prints are Western in form: planographic printing, intaglio printing, relief printing and stencil printing. Lithography belongs to planographic printing, etching belongs to intaglio printing, and the woodcut belongs to relief printing; only stencil printing remained for a long time without a proper category." - The cradle of screenprinting -
Website - http://www.artmondo.net/printworks/articles/china.html 13/03/2014
A clip from the movie Hero, this clip shows the importance of calligraphy in a range of aspects to life. Here it shows the importance in martial arts as the fighters imitate the free movement of the brush in their attacks.
Video Link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjVgX0A8Jtc
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