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
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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
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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