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Scarlet Cheng, A Brush with Chinese Calligraphy Greats; 'Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy' at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco explores the form through the collection of Yahoo's Jerry Yang. Los Angeles Times, Oct 14, 2012.
http://www.latimes.com/entertain ... alligraphy-20121014,0,4046789.story

Note:
(a) Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy. Asian Art Museum (at San Franscisco), Oct 5, 2012-Jan 13, 2013.
http://www.asianart.org/calligraphy/
(b) News release: Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy. Asian Art Museum exhibition uses contemporary lens to explore important collection of rare Chinese masterworks. Asian Art Museum, undated.
http://www.asianart.org/document ... racterFINAL_000.pdf

Quotations from (c), (d) and (f) below are copied from the news release, at page 5.

(c) DONG Qichang  董 其昌
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong_Qichang
(1555-1636; 大明)

"明朝 董其昌 行書臨古帖卷 紙本
Calligraphy after Ancient Masters in semicursive script, by Dong Qichang (1555-1636), handscroll, ink on paper."
(i) semi-cursive script  行書
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-cursive_script
(ii) cursive script (East Asia)  草書
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_script_(East_Asia)

(d) Lotus Sutra by ZHAO Mengfu  趙 孟頫
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Mengfu
(1254-1322; 大元)

"元朝 趙孟頫 小楷大乘妙法蓮華經卷第三卷 紙本
The Sūtra on the Lotus of the Sublime Dharma in small standard script, by Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322), habdscroll, number 3 of a set of 7, ink on paper."

(e) The report talked about "Pieces on a Houseboat," a handscroll that 13 calligraphy masters of the Ming dynasty wrote on successively.

明朝 "十三家 行書屋舟篇 卷 紙本
Pieces on a Houseboat, in semicursive script, approx. 1450-1500, by thirteen masters of the Ming dynasty. Handscroll, ink on paper, H. 12 7/8XW. 456 5/8 in."
(f) "Thousand Character Essay" by Wen Peng (1498-1573)

"明朝 文彭 隸書千字文 紙本冊頁
Thousand-Character Classic in clerical script, by Wen Peng (1498-1573), album of 85 double leaves, ink on paper."
(g) The report mentioned "the influence of Chinese calligraphy on such Western artists as Franz Kline, Mark Tobey and Brice Marden."
(i) Franz Kline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kline
(1910 Pennsylvania-1962; an American painter)
(ii) Mark Tobey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Tobey
(1890 – 1976; an American painter)
(iii) Brice Marden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brice_Marden
(1938- ; an American artist)
() The report also discussed "Xu Bing, famous for making 'wrong characters.'"

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