Thursday, September 30, 2021

Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (66) Golden Autumn - 金秋

 


Characters in the artwork

1, Golden or Gold


which is small seal script of the character.

The top a cover and a short - means "contain", the bottom two vertical short line are actually two dots in any other scripts. Because small seal script has no dot, all dots are replaced by short lines. the rest part means Soil. The character means that the soil contains or has gold (the two dots are gold particles found in soil).

2, Autumn


The left is character Rice Crop, the top is ear of the rice in autumn. The right it character Fire, two dots are  flame, and the center is firewood.

Chinese believe that autumn is golden because the ripe grains are yellow, the clouds are red just like fire. So Chinese call autumn as golden autumn. 

I repeated the character Rich Crop, and Fire to form a three dimentional wild field, let audience feel the visual impact of Golden Autumn.

Friday, September 3, 2021

Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (65) Mountain Trip - 山行

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Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (80) Thinking Elephant - 想象

There were elephants living in Yellow River region about millions years ago. The weather changed, the forest disappeared, and elephants vani...