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Originally Posted by noodle
A Chinese friend of mine, an old flatmate, was a calligraphy enthusiast! Everyday, he would spend no less than 1 hour practicing! With everything he showed me and told me about calligraphy in China, Japan etc I was never really impressed compared to Arabic Calligraphy!
I don't think Chinese or Japanese calligraphy is necessarily made to look beautiful, and perhaps that's why I don't appreciate it! My friend done it almost as a meditation tool. I don't know if it's just him, but I can see it being that way! |
Calligraphy is a poetry of lines and meaning. It speaks to those who are able to meditate with it. Not only the person that writes enters the meditative state. If the viewer is not able to do so he wont be able to connect with it. Not everyone likes poetry, not everyone likes abstraction. Calligraphy is a bit of both. A lot of Japanese people do not understand it, they simply want to rush through it.