Self was a main focus in our ancestors. The key to Chinese painting lies in it’s calligraphic brushwork and it’s potential to express individuality of the artist. In fact, calligraphic expression is very much a product of time, place, and social conditions; the artist through constant interaction with historical situation and by projecting himself into his art produces meaning; beyond mimetic representation. Nevertheless, the definition of expression as a subject of art history precludes the notion of a development sequence. This beyond the formulation of art history as stylistic progression, as a language of signs and their meanings, or as developing within a socioeconomic matrix, what is needed is a new structure to address the expressive
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