Analysis on Formal Beauty of Chinese Calligraphy from the Viewpoint of Composition

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10.2991/icelaic-15.2016.151How to use a DOI?

Keywords

composition; formal beauty; art of calligraphy

Abstract

Chinese characters compose of more or less strokes that follow certain rules and formal beauty principles. This paper analyzed Chinese characters’ formal beauty mainly according to the principles of formal beauty composition, including unity and change, contrast and consonance, symmetry and balance, rhythm and rhyme, proportion and segmentation, to conclude that the art of calligraphy has not only the formal beauty but also aesthetic sense factors of more features that is the beauty of artistic conception worth our exploration, so as to find our own method of graphic design.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Shujuan Su
PY  - 2015/11
DA  - 2015/11
TI  - Analysis on Formal Beauty of Chinese Calligraphy from the Viewpoint of Composition
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 2nd International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Intercultural Communication
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 584
EP  - 586
SN  - 2352-5398
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