Amazing Chinese Calligraphy Art In Barcelona

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According to handwriting Chinese, or shūfǎ (书法), Chinese characters can be traced along five historical styles. Normally all are made ​​with brush and ink. These styles are intrinsically linked to the history of Chinese writing.

The style is quickly replaced, since the third century, by the regular style. However, it continued to be used in calligraphy even to this day. Gives the composition a dignified air, judgmental and majestic. Therefore is used apart from in calligraphy, mainly for slogans, famous quotes and titles. The style comes from a "distortion" by simplifying the regular outline. That is why it is currently the most widely used for manuscripts of everyday life. However, it is ignored by calligraphy, far from it, nor is it considered a bastard form of regularly: in calligraphy has its own rules.

A contemporary definition of the practice of calligraphy is "the art of beautiful writing". The history of writing is a story of aesthetic evolution framed by the technical skills, speed and material limitations of different people, times and places.

Calligraphy ranges from completely utilitarian creations to magnificent works of art where the abstract expression may become more important than the legibility of the letters. Classical calligraphy differs from typography and non-classical handwriting, though a calligrapher may be able to create all of them.

Chinese culture attaches great importance to calligraphy. This is based on the visual beauty of the ideograms, the technique of their execution and metaphysical precepts of traditional Chinese culture.

An ideogram is an icon, conventional image or symbol that represents a being, relationship or abstract ideas but not words or phrases that mean, though in some languages ​​means writing a word, morpheme or phrase certain, without representing each of its syllables or phonemes.

Currently, the ideograms are particularly important in countries like Japan, where since 1995 is usually organize an annual national competition to identify the kanji (Japanese ideogram) most popular of the year. This time, as the data were released, the ideogram most votes, 2011 turned out to be that of kizuna (treated as 'link'). Behind sai were ideograms ('unfortunately'), shin ('earthquake'), nami ("waves") and jo ('help'). In 2010, as a result of the heat wave that hit the Asian country, the winner turned out to be the kanji ideogram representing sho ('heat').

In the rest of the world, the ideograms are often used for artistic reasons, and they are used to embellish decorative objects (such as vases, frames, rugs, etc..) And / or as original designs for tattoos.

The pictograms can be used as alternative or augmentative systems of communication. Generally, people who use it have difficulty in oral and written communication, and using pictures as words to express ideas, concepts, feelings, etc.. A pictogram must be for the person using a form to interpret, understand and transform their reality in images and, through them, a means to express and convey their thoughts to the caller.

These pictograms may represent a concrete reality (eg an object, animal, person, etc..), An abstract reality (eg a feeling), an action (eg look), and even a grammatical element (eg adjectives, conjunctions, articles, prepositions, etc..). The association between the sign and the sound occurs early in the cuneiform writing and the spread in Egypt, although co-exist with pictograms and ideograms for some time. In the cuneiform writing process is very slow and often the signs represent syllables rather than individual letters.

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