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context: calligraphy
Modern Calligraphy
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Dragon, by Morita Shiryu, 1966 |
Like so much in other art forms, the possibilities for calligraphers these days are more or less unlimited. There is a wide range of styles, and it is no longer considered necessary for an artist to produce work that anyone can actually read - in the same way that non-utilitarian ceramics merge with modern sculpture, this merges with modern painting. I believe the image here is not genuinely readable as the word on which it is based, for example.