On the Topology of Wild Cursive Script in Chinese Calligraphy(PDF)
《南京师大学报》（社会科学版）[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]
- Issue:
- 2024年04期
- Page:
- 137-147
- Research Field:
- 语言文学研究
- Publishing date:
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- Title:
- On the Topology of Wild Cursive Script in Chinese Calligraphy
- Author(s):
- LUO Dongqing
- Keywords:
- wild cursive script images; topological changes; extremes; musicalization
- PACS:
- -
- DOI:
- -
- Abstract:
- Just as topology works as the essence of geometry, the images of wild cursive script work as the essence of Hanzi 汉字（Chinese character）images. Chinese calligraphy is extra-linguistic. The form or image of Hanzi itself contains hypertextual features, while its calligraphic images go beyond its basic image, entering the world of art. Wild cursive script images, furthermore, boast an extreme abstractness that surpasses images in the wildest way. Such an abstractness possesses both a physical side and an eventful potential, and is thus endowed with great possibility of expression. That expression, empowered by a profound graphic intuition, points to some extreme presentation of Hanzi images, changing the structure of Hanzi images and the relationship between words, showing an artistic force that overturns the rule governing Hanzi images by means of free creation. The time structure of wild cursive script images, merging into the space structure, forms a 4D structure in the sense of the relativity theory. The pursuit for extremes and the limit of Hanzi images mutually lead wild cursive script images to a topological art. We can analyze those images with the mathematical thinking of topology, which will reveal the way the wild cursive script, with its smoothness and tension, changes the shapes of Hanzi images. Wild cursive script images, on the basis of the non-semantic characteristics of Hanzi images, change images into music by means of synesthesia and inspiration. The musical feature of the wild cursive script can be seen in the craving for a transcendental experience with the integral process of writing Hanzi.
Last Update: 2024-08-25