Calligraphy-Foreign students-NCYU

書法簡介  Chinese characters have gone through a very long evolution.

 Since 1400 B.C.(The Shang Dynasty), they had become more and more simplified until 4th century(The Jin Dynasty).

 In those 1700 years, various scripts successively emerged.

 They are classified into seal, official, cursive, running and regular.

 In The Tang Dynasty, cursive become a sort of art, as developed into 「 wild cursive hand 」 , it was more a piece of artwork than tools of communication.

 Paying attention to distribution of black and white on the paper, artists didn’t care much about the recognizability.

文化體驗活動： 龍飛鳳舞 --- 中國書法 之美 報告者：劉宏澤 Fabio

永字八法

永字八法

The Eight Principles of Yong

 The Eight Principles of Yong explains how to write the eight strokes common in Chinese characters found all in the one character of yong ( 永 , meaning "permanence"). It is believed that the frequent practice of these principles as a beginner calligrapher could ensure the beauty in one's writing.

永字八法

The Principle's names and representations are:     

Ce ( 側 ), top-left to bottom-right Le ( 勒 ), a straight horizontal line Nu ( 弩 ), a straight vertical line Ti ( 剔 ), a hook to the left Ce ( 策 ), a tapering horizontal line thinning toward upper right  Lue ( 掠 ), a long slightly curvy tapering line thinning toward lower left  Zhuo ( 啄 ), a short tapering line thinning toward lower left  Zhe ( 磔 ), thickening line toward lower right

影片欣賞

 雲門舞集 --- 行草 永字八法 http://www.cloudgate.org.tw/cg/multimedia/v

 水墨測試  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDNJCoz

 Let we try to dance  調息呼吸 10s 30s  影片欣賞

認識字體 --- 楷書

認識字體 --- 隸書

認識字體 --- 篆書

認識字體 --- 行書

認識字體 --- 草書

 練寫時間  調息呼吸 20s 40s