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    The Book of Bamboo
    The Book of Bamboo
    The Book of Bamboo
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    The Book of Bamboo

    By I-Hsiung Ju

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    This instructional book for Chinese brush painting on bamboo includes an introductory of appreciation of Chinese calligraphy and painting, and the equipment and supplies, the basic exercise on painting bamboo trunks, branches, and leaves, and the basic composition of a bamboo painting. Illustration and instruction work together side by side for general readers as well as painting students.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateDec 19, 2016
    ISBN9780977059874
    The Book of Bamboo

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      I’m practicing sumi, i think this is the best book in English about the bamboo. It gives crucial knowledge about leaves group formation, how to create harmony with branch, if I could buy it in paper format I certainly will. It contains years of practice. Being able to access to those books with scribd it is a garuantee for scribe to have me as a lifetime premium member. Thank you so much

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    The Book of Bamboo - I-Hsiung Ju

    Painting.

    I

    From the days of their common origin, Chinese painting and Chinese writing have been allied arts. They use the same equipment and share aims, techniques, and standards.

    In the oldest written sources, tracings in the nature of emblems, in connection with divination were used to serve as Words ). When those words came to mean the language of a poet, they still remained in pictorial forms, but on the other hand, when they came to mean the real forms in painting, they retained some of the earlier sense of semblances and emblems which nicely defined their function in a composition.

    For example, the Chinese character Chu ) which means bamboo is just an emblem of two groups of bamboo leaves. Ever since the beginning, bamboo has been written and also been painted in the same manner, in other words, a work depicting bamboo is both a painting and a piece of calligraphy.

    The early Chinese characters had only two families, one called pictography and another, ideography. They evolved gradually from the Pa Kua ) or Eight Trigrams, invented by Fu Hsi ) which were composed by the grouping together of simple horizontal lines broken and unbroken, symbolizing the diverse objects of the universe.

    According to the I-Ching ) the Book of Changes, the unbroken line is the symbol of Sun, male, brightness - and positive and even anything which has something to do with those mentioned above; the broken line is moon, female, darkness - and passive, and everything that is contrary to the unbroken line.

    There are three lines in every group, and eight groups in all, which are

    The Eight Trigrams, which were the easiest writing, were also described as first pictures. According to the scratchings on the Shang ) oracle bones and fragments - the prototype of Chinese writing were actually developed from that first picture combinations or diagrams of I-Ching ).

    Ancient books said that the inventor of systematic pictography was Ch'ang Chi ). The following characters are examples:

    In the first words book Shuo Wen Chieh Tse ) (literally, explanation and description on words) it was said that the pictographic characters were drawings of objects by tracing their forms.

    We might call every pictographic word an abstract painting. To use the painter's or writer's term, it is Hsie Yi ) meaning ­to write ideas. Chinese artists so preferred Hsie Yi ) they had a low opinion of Hsie Shih ) which means to write the real. They enjoyed the symbolic or abstract arts very much, and gave way to artisans to work for realistic works, which are copies of nature. Chinese painters speak of painting and writing as fundamentally the same, and of styles of brushwork in terms of calligraphy, and they often use the word Hsie ) (to write) in place of Hwa ) (to paint).

    II

    We also found many an ideographic character on the Shang ) oracle bones, Chou ) bronzes, and Ch'in ) stones. The rubbings from those inscriptions have long been somewhat a treasure to art loving Chinese people.

    Ideographic characters have both the idea of Eight Trigrams and of pictography. Chinese Liu Shu ) the six origins of Chinese characters, classified

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