Push contemporary celebrated calligraphers,Globalize Chinese calligraphy
According to the situation of contemporary calligraphy, generally speaking, contemporary Chinese calligraphy has gotten through “plagiarize western post-modern age” and started “Re-innovation age of Chinese classics”. There are three remarkable trends in the future of calligraphy’s development. First, calligraphy becomes cultural and classical; second, Chinese calligraphy becomes educational institutionalized; third, Chinese calligraphy becomes international. However, if the understanding and ideology are confused, Chinese calligraphy may run the risk of being separated from modern calligraphy.
ⅠInfluence and opportunity by America's financial crisis to oriental literature
Western ideology stresses “Knowledge Acquisition”, put the impersonality first; Chinese ideology stresses to carry out in good conscience, pursue the integrity of life. Good conscience is a exceeding to epistemology and art is an ultimate experience to life. On the way of aesthetic appreciation, classical art leads people return to universal state from utilitarian state through art state, by its faith of retrospection and liberation. Back of the competition between the West and China, conflict of the two moods that experienced in life impenetrate the time series among pre-modern, modern and post-modern.
In the competition between the West and China, China has gotten through the hardest century: enlighten and salvation, imitate West and self-development, post-colonialism and seeking self-identity of culture, western words hegemony and Chinese cultural identity. These made us grow up from the corners and finally we become a great power with political, economic and military rise. However, China is neither a big cultural country nor a cultural heavyweight.
In point of art, it is mainly the “Asian traditional style”, Chinese paper media. The Chinese style was molten and marginalized by “European modernity”. Then, the European style was also molten and marginalized by “American post-modern”. Therefore, American Art, Pop Art, Performance Art, Ready-made Art, Installation art, Happenings art and conceptual art, most of which are called Terrible Art and Soulless Art by western critics. Their characters are melt value, lose value judgment and connotation, ignore content, nothing but form, deny position, nothing but a game or a show time. If there are a little content, it is nothing but a nausea feeling. Therefore, contemporary western art which headed by the US can be called the “nauseous art”
