ARTH 458 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Huang Tingjian, Ouyang Xun, Su Shi
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Opposite paths to originality: huang t"ing-chien and mi fu. Robert e. harrist, jr. & wen c. fong. The embodied image: chinese calligraphy from the john b. elliott collection) Huang t"ing-chien (1045-1105: works discussed here, scroll for chang ta-t"ung, 1100. "remembering my old friend"" by li po, ca. 1104: born a prodigy into a family of scholar-officials, the most privileged class in. Mi fu (1052-1107: works discussed here, three letters , ca. Summer heat , hasty reply before guests : poem written in a boat on the wu river, ca. An important difference shows when we read style and content together: huang"s visual form is independent of the content (in his colophon for "preface to. Different ways of transforming the tradition they had assimilated: huang: innovative in terms of visual style (brush line, character size, structure, spacing), but committed to the time-honoured independence of style, mi: his innovation rises from a classical foundation.
