Korean Calligraphy Master in Europe
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Chinese writing has appeared in
Korea already in the II or the
III century, probably, it is connected with the spread of Buddhism. Admiration culture of the
Tang Dynasty, including
Chinese calligraphy, increased during the period of
Unified Silla. In the VIII century Kim Saeng has become recognized as the earliest Korean calligraphy master, creating works that are comparable with the work of a
Chinese calligrapher Wang Xizhi.
Korean poet Choi
Aim High was also known as a calligrapher, a model of which is engraved on the mountain
Haeundae in
Busan.
The angular style of the masters of the early Tang Dynasty:
Yu Shinan,
Ouyang Xun and
Yan Zhenqing, lasted until the
XIV century up until not entered into vogue more rounded style of
Zhao Mengfu. In subsequent years, the Korean calligraphy became more formalistic.
At the beginning of the
XIX century, Kim Jeong-Hee made a revolution in Korean calligraphy, introducing the so-called style jusa, inspired by the ancient
Chinese style deprive.
During the
Japanese occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945-th year, calligraphy used
Chinese characters.
Later nationalist sentiment in Korea led to the popularization of the native alphabet Hangul, which prevails to this day in the works of contemporary calligraphers.
In
Asia, primarily in
Greater China, Korea and
Japan, calligraphy still has an important role in the social and artistic life. The tools most commonly used are brush, ink stick and stone, and the paper as an integral part of the writing process. Before the actual writing ink is rubbed on the ink stick in the ink stone with water or wine. The act of writing is nowadays often impulsive, which makes the characters difficult to read, but all the more expressive.
Font styles such as cursive script make the actual text and its readability even deliberately behind the calligraphic design back, even educated Chinese can
Gras writings do not read often. They are regarded as image rather than text.
Calligraphic art adorn as paired vertical tablets and as a horizontal nameplates
Chinese Garden. They are almost inseparable from the garden building and form important decorative elements in Chinese landscape garden. The content of the boards and signs is generally related to the environment of the building. Frequently there are lines from famous poems in which peculiarities of the scenery are indicated.
Although calligraphy in
Europe has lost a lot of prestige since the beginning of the modern age, it is an art form and hobby still alive, even experienced a renaissance since the introduction of the home computer. Across Europe, there are historical works of ancient and medieval calligraphers, which frequently originated in monasteries and expensive with their facilities and rich details.
Traditional East Asian Calligraphy used brushes and
Chinese ink, which is made from soot and animal fats. It is usually in solid form and should be ground using a special stone, and then diluted with water so the writing fluid is prepared from the calligraphy itself is part of his art.
Minhwa normally includes the form of folk art in the later
Joseon. As there are no other restrictions, the paintings depict various aspects of religion: Buddhism, Confucianism.,
Korean shamanism. Minhwa uses various colors but traditional. Creción of the middle class were the various works to imitate noble style is considered Yangban, causing more changes of
Korean art at the time freely. The
Munjado is a type of
Korean popular images (Minhwa) containing a
Chinese character (showing the high cultural level), decorated with figurative decorations. The character is a virtue.
Chinese calligraphy is the foundation of
Chinese art in the modern sense, the visual beauty of ideograms technology on which it rests and the plastic issues related thereto embody all the precepts metaphysical
Chinese culture.
Asian calligraphy became a major art long time ago. This art is also much developed in Japan, many characters called kanji (
Japanese word meaning literally "Han writing" and designating the ideograms) being common to both languages. But due to the fact that grammatically Japanese is totally different from the Chinese, the Japanese were forced to create two syllabic alphabets: hiragana and katakana. Calligraphy was thus established in the rising sun as strongly in
China, based on the copying of
Buddhist texts, poetry and literature as well.
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