ON THE RELATION BETWEEN CHINESE PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY Author(s): Ling Su Hua Reviewed work(s): Source: East and West, Vol. 4, No. 4 (JANUARY 1954), pp. 269-277 Published by: Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente (IsIAO) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/29758102 . Accessed: 18/01/2013 09:16 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected] . Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente (IsIAO) is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to East and West. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded on Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:16:47 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions ON THE RELATION CHINESE AND PAINTING / am to hare been asked to talk delighted on a to Chinese yon favourite subject, which have very few Europeans paid much to attention yet. I hope you will give me your sympathy and patience if you find that 1 am talking of something is not which familiar to you. Since modern European painters, especially the Impressionists, showed Oriental influence some Westem in their work, scholars and art critics to think have it worthwhile to begun the study painting. Although study Chinese has made been of Chinese painting from different angles, yet very few have approached to what the Chinese that matter", is so intrinsically is call "The heart through calligraphy, to it. related BETWEEN of the which CALLIGRAPHY the Arabs and Japanese, the Chinese Except are the in the world who make only people a art. national It is the most j)o calligraphy art in China. Chinese children about pular or seven can six tell you which character often or is which is bad, and in the writing good remote inland to visit a district, if you go Chinese the artistic decoration family, you find in their living room is alivays a jmir of scrolls written in fine calligraphy. Chinese calligraphy iswidely used in daily life. If you ever attend a Chinese ivedding party, you will see scrolls of red and gold silk or paper written in beautiful and characters, for a burial the scrolls are in white or blue or yellow also in fine calligraphy; written those of course characters have not the same meanings! Chi 269 This content downloaded on Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:16:47 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions or strokes or brush work are without strength or spirit, or they are weak and lacking in the same terms and The strength of the brush. same words character writ? they use to describe a Chinese art are to To paintings. applied ing are not and critic, painting calligraphy ordy twin sisters, but also they are great friends; In this each other all the time. they help bears for itself a dis? regard, Ch