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11/15/96 Dr. Marilyn Wong Gleysteen
calligraphy - beautiful writing, the way of writing, a eart
print (reading personality into writing) the primary art
form for the Chinese.

brush, ink stone, paper, pigment cake - hairs - sheep, goat, stable, weasel

each character - a cobindation - pictorogram, ideogram (abstract), phonogram (sound)

scripts 1) seal - the spaces are as important asthe lines, stable
may be incised
"modern" 2) clerical - use of the brush, dynamic
3) standard - characters more 3 dimentional
4) running - strokes linked together, an extension of 3
5) cursive - a shorthand, abbreviated strokes - "wild"
"white coming through"
(1500 BC)

"ancient" {bronze writing - oracle bone (written with a brush + then carved) -
real script - greater -style
small, unified form by the 1st emperor - Qin -later -clift writing

by the 4th C A.D. all the types are developed
afterwards - refinement only
- development of writing a combination of abstract +
naturalistic foms.
earliest chinese "book" - 8th C - bamboo slats bound with twine.
-then jade slips - the "grid" or slats is maintained
on paper //// 2nd C.
the tortoise + its connection with seals - legend - the
"yellow emperor" is moved to invent writing when he saw
the marks on the back of a tortoise

- the "Orchid Preface Pavilion" (353 AD)
by Wang Xichi - his most noted work