Huang Yuanqing on Chinese Calligraphy of the Late Ming Dynasty

RAS LECTURE

Saturday April 17^th 2010 at 4.00pm

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273 Jiaozhou Road, No. 12, 2/F

Address in Chinese: 上海市胶州路273弄12号2楼 ?What IF!

HUANG YUANQING

Chinese Calligraphy of the Late Ming Dynasty

Chinese Calligraphy is a huge subject viewed from a multitude of perspectives and times. Huang Yuanqing will focus on Calligraphy in the late Ming Dynasty tracing the origin of ideas of the past as well as leading us through thought process of the times.

Investigating calligraphy of the late Ming Dynasty, he will look and discuss the source of ideological trends in literati painting in the Song Dynasty, and how it influenced Li Zhi’s theory of the pure childlike innocence, written during the Ming Dynasty.

He will illustrate how calligraphy’s emphasis and appearance, following a rigid set of rules and exemplifying humanity, in earlier times, changed to express the individual, during the Ming Dynasty.

Throughout this period, discoveries and research into non transitional art shifted the viewpoint thereby changing views of the ‘classical’.

Huang Yuanqing will further examine how the then contemporary perspectives, changed the manner in which calligraphy was viewed, its relationship to literati painting, traditional painting and calligraphy, seal carving and copying from the past. As well as the persons who practiced calligraphy.

Huang Yuanqing is a native Shanghai resident. A graduate of Shanghai University, School of Science and Engineering in microwave engineering, he became a university teacher and practicing contemporary artist. He has written a number of books on diverse subjects such as crickets and their habits, cricket boxes and modern and contemporary western art. As an artist he uses the process of calligraphy practice in his research and development of his own art form. 

Entrance: RMB 30 (RAS members) and RMB 80 (non-members) those unable to make the donation but wishing to attend may contact us for exemption, prior to the RAS Lecture. Membership applications and membership renewals will be available at this event.

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