- http://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/culture/calligraphy.htm
- Victor Shu
- Director of ChinaHighlights.com
- the source says, "Calligraphy is one of the traditional arts unique to China. It is not only a stool of cultural communication but an artistic treasure with shining and extraordinary splendor. Chinese calligraphy has a long history and lasts about 1000 years. It can be considered as a unique artistic form of the treasury of Chinese culture. It is the representative of Chinese art and is reputed as the most ancient artistic form in the history of oriental world. Calligraphy has exerted wide influence world widely and has even been introduced to many neighboring countries. Picasso, the world famous master of art, once expressed that "If I once lived in China, I must had become a calligrapher rather than a painter". Chinese traditional calligraphy mainly fall into six categories: Seal Charater, Official Script, Formal Script, Running Script, Formal Script, Running Script, Cursive Hand."
- somewhat
- it challenges the number of categories of calligraphy but agrees with other sites for the most part
Monday, May 18, 2009
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