My true feelings toward Mr. Mao (as native Chinese refer to him)We just finished up a culture class on Chinese Caligraphy.
Our Laoshi (teacher) for Caligraphy.The teacher that spoke to us about Caligraphy was apparently a really good caligrapher and his works are very expensive around the world. He would only make 3 pieces of art for our class- 1 for the teacher and 2 other students got one based on lottery. This guys handwriting is worth 1000 US dollars per square foot...... yea, what?
I don't really understand caligraphy. Yea it looks cool but I guess I don't have the eye to distinguish good stuff from crap (except i know my version of caligraphy was amazing) Apparently it takes a really long time to become very good at caligraphy. But seeing him do it in person it doesn't really look that tough to master. I feel like caligraphy, by itself, has no room for creativity. I like caligraphy in tandem with chinese painting because it combines the creativity of the painting with the culture and beauty of the chinese characters. I can't really tell what makes someones caligraphy that much better than someone elses (that it's worth $1000 a square foot). But what do I know--- It does look cool though.
Next week we our heading out on a domestic plane ride and then a 14 hour train ride back from our destination. We are going to see terracota soldiers and some ancient city wall.
I hope you noticed I got pictures up. I added some to the others blogs where appropriate. My blogs will now all have pictures for now on... hooray, I'm so smart
-Justin
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