…Calligraphy as a basis for art
Not only is calligraphy the basis of all traditional Chinese painting as you not only train your brushwork skills, which is difficult enough, but you also sharpen your compositional skills. If a character is to be good, it has to meet a whole series of criteria that we as Western observers are not even aware of and that go beyond our horizon.
In the extra part, I will try to use a single character to indicate the dimension of the whole thing.
Below are 3 examples of simpler characters with approaches to good composition.

From the moment he was born, Arye Ephrath was in danger. His mother gave birth to him with the help of a housemaid in spring 1942 while hiding from the first wave of deportations of Jews from their hometown in Slovakia. Later, a shepherd and his wife took in Arye on the condition they could disguise him as a girl so that he would blend in with their daughters…
Pictured above are the Margules children wearing Jewish Star of David badges. Originally from Warsaw, the Margules family settled in Paris in the 1930s. Three of the children were deported and killed in 1942. Only one daughter (pictured at the bottom right) survived the war. Paris, France, 1941. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Mirka MargulesSource: 


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