Influence Of Chinese Calligraphy Art Of Western Abstract Expressionism

Chinese calligraphy is one of the oldest of the art of writing Chinese characters. From the earliest Oracle until now, The art of calligraphy has developed more than3000years in history. Calligraphy writing style can be divided into seal script, official script, cursive script, regular script, running script. Among them, the line as the most basic form of language in the art of calligraphy, it is mixed with concrete and abstract elements. And through aesthetic accomplishment and writing of the author’s own rhythm feeling, finally can show great artistic appeal. Chinese calligraphy is the pursuit of " harmony between the heaven and human " realm, Pay attention to the unity of subject and object, art is thought to be from inside and outside of the image activity.In contrast, the traditional Western painting emphasizes the objective and realistic, Aristotle said:"people’s cognitive begins with imitation, art objects is an imitation of the real world in reality, art reflects not only the appearance of things, but also reflects the essence of its inherent law and things, the creation of art depends on the objective world imitation ability, this ability to mimic the human in the child when he some nature and instinct." Influence of this kind of "imitation theory" in the western traditional painting is far-reaching, affected by it, the western traditional painting always strive to objectively by nature, as far as possible the painting will be consistent with eyes to see.However, the rise of Abstract Expressionism painting after World War II to the60’s the United States of America, is a relatively new painting art genre, this group of artists against traditional old painting, many of them are drawn from Chinese calligraphy and Oriental philosophy nutrition to find inspiration, their works or passionate, or quiet, are expressed in abstract form and arouse human emotion. Since this more than half a century, Chinese calligraphy art tremendous impact on Western abstract expressionism style, but the western aesthetic theory on nearly half a century of far-reaching.