What are the similarities between calligraphy and art?

1. Both Chinese painting and calligraphy use pen, ink, paper and inkstone as tools, which is the most basic material condition and starting point for the communication of calligraphy and painting.

The brilliance of China's calligraphy and painting art depends on the invention of the brush. The soft, flexible and elastic brush appeared as early as the painting of painted pottery by Banpo people. The so-called Meng Tian pen-making by later generations is just an improvement of the writing and painting tools used by primitive ancestors.

2. Both Chinese painting and calligraphy are based on lines, art media.

Calligraphy, with its composition and expression of words, emphasizes the expression of images and emotions in dynamic and static rhythm; Chinese painting expresses objects by it, and emphasizes the sense of body, texture and quantity. The exploration of the line of calligraphy in imagery, three-dimensional and emotional aspects endows painting with richer modeling power.

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For thousands of years, Chinese painting and calligraphy have always been regarded as sister arts linked by flesh and blood, with brothers and sisters. Calligraphy and painting clubs have a long history, a long tradition of expression and a profound ontological foundation. "The homology of calligraphy and painting" is the most famous theoretical proposition of China's classical art.

In ancient times, literati and painters all attached great importance to painting with books, and their painting methods often turned into lines with lofty, elegant, smooth and precise features in calligraphy, which led to painting innovation. Writing and painting bamboo, Guo Xi and Tang Di painting trees, Wen Riguan painting grapes, all draw lessons from cursive writing and create a generation of painting style; Wang Wei's raindrop carving, Li Sixun's axe carving and Wu Daozi's orchid leaf painting are all related to calligraphy.

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