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Lee Seo’s Aesthetics of Calligraphy from the Perspective of the Imagination of Changes —Focused upon Aesthetic Categories and Artistic Way—
Journal of Humanities
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The essay is focused upon analyzing Lee Seo’s theory of calligraphy through the imagination of Changes and understanding his artistic way of humanity. He attaches importance to the method, technique and way of calligraphy, which respectively are representative as the aesthetic principle, the aesthetic object and the aesthetic stage. They are based upon the holistic principle of vitality in Zhou-yi and its historical commentaries. The methodological idea of calligraphy presented by Lee Seo I call the imagination of Changes. It provides a kind of foundation for the artistic theory of calligraphy. It is a clue to how he establishes a rule of calligraphy, applies it into a calligraphical technique, and ultimately attains to the calligraphical way. From the viewpoint of the philosophy of art, his theory of calligraphy can be understandable in the triple structure of the Way of Heaven, Humanity and Art. The Heavenly Way is the canon of the Human Way, and the Artistic Way is the revelation of the Human Way. The Artistic Way, therefore, is a symbolic crystallization of the universal unity of Heaven and Humanity. His theory of calligraphy provides a basis not only for an origin stream of the Korean artistic spirit of calligraphy but also for the Zhou-yi character of East-asian thought and culture.
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