Appreciation for Chinese Calligraphy A DBAE Approach By Ton

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Appreciation forChinese CalligraphyA DBAE
Approach

• By Toni Humphrey, Howard Crosby, Shelly Harris,
  Julie Boissel

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DISCIPLINE-BASED ART EDUCATION( DBAE ) 

• Aesthetics -The nature and value of art.
• Art Criticism - Analyzes art objectively makes
  judgments.
• Art History - Cultural and historical setting.
• Production - The concepts and skills required in
  making art.

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Artistic History of China

• Chinese civilization began 3000 years before the
  birth of
• Christ and can lay claim as being the oldest
  continuous
• culture in the world. The art of painting is
  recorded in
• Chinese culture seven centuries before the birth
  of Christ. The
• first Chinese painter was a woman by the name of
  Lei (lah-
• EE) and the sister of emperor Shun (2255 to 2205
  B.C.)
• Japan owes much of its existence to China for
  their artistic
• development and written language.

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• The philosophy of calligraphy in Chinese culture
  is to reach oneness through meditation, which was
  adapted from Indian Culture.

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What is Chinese Calligraphy?

• It is an Oriental art that uses Chinese
  characters to communicate the spiritual world of
  the artist.

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Chinese calligraphy is a work of art that conveys
moral integrity, character, emotions, and the joy
of beauty.
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• The Chinese also praise this form of Chinese
  art as having the beauty of image in painting,
  the beauty of dynamism in dance, martial arts,
  and the beauty of rhythm in music.

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