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Art Of The Scholar-Poets: Traditional Chinese Painting And Calligraphy, University Of Richmond Museums
Art Of The Scholar-Poets: Traditional Chinese Painting And Calligraphy, University Of Richmond Museums
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Art of the Scholar-Poets: Traditional Chinese Painting and Calligraphy
April 01 to May 09, 1998
Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond Museums
Introduction
Chinese culture developed one of the world's most enduring artistic traditions, literati painting, based upon a unique idea about the purposes of art. The art of the scholar-poets is centered in calligraphy and poetry, which the literati learned at an early age as part of their basic education. Painting was done with the same tools as poetry and calligraphy - brush, ink, and paper - and it was an easy step to express poetic sensibilities in visual …