Your comlement is useful. Thanks. I just focused very superficially on the meaning of calligraphy as an art, because for the rest of the details I was not trained enough on the subject.
2013/4/22 Steffen Daode <[email protected]> > Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote: > |Plus an extra knowledge masterized by experts, perceived as artists. This > |art is called calligraphy, and calligraphy exists for all writing > systems. > |It is particluarly developed as an art by writers of Chinese and Arabic. > It > |was more important in the past for the Latin/Cyrillic/Greek alphabetic > |family of script but it has not completely disappeared and it is still > used > |for the production of corporate logos, advertizing, and identifiation of > |products and trademarks, so I would not say that calligraphy is dead in > the > |alphabetic script. Calligraphy is still considered bery important in > Indic > |abugidas as well (notably for transcriptions of religious texts, e.g. in > |the Tibetan script) > > In my superficial and unaware understanding Chinese calligraphy > has always existed as another form of meditation and a way to > transport personal and philosophical experiences, and there seems > to be a special kind of „painting“ with a divided pictorial > representation of an emphatic impression (of the artist), in a > form of calligraphy bundled with a painted image; e.g., a > parchment with a tree on the left side, and calligraphy on the > right. > > I don't think this can be compared to what the western world knows > as „calligraphie“, e.g., in Germany elementary school kids become > graded for the prettiness of their handwriting. But it is surely > also a matter of whether the calligrapher walks on four, two or > three legs. Still, there surely is a philosophical difference. > I do agree with you that this is a great pity, however. > > --steffen > > >
