some fun discovery from my recent research

Lately I have been doing a lot of research for my trip to Beijing master classes and performing lectures.

Not to mention all the classical music terms according to the timeline, absolute music, program music, Neo-Classicalism, impressionistic music, expressionistic music and so on…

Speaking of Expressionism, this term was first applied to music in 1918, especially to Schoenberg, just like the painter Kandinsky’s idea, to “avoid traditional form of beauty” for carrying on powerful feelings toward to music.

Besides Expressionism, the other 2 art movements are Impressionism (19/20th c.) and Romanticism (19th c.), so called, Abstract Art.

I love how art and music are inseparable.

With all the Western music research, I stumbled into my roots, a pleasant surprise :)

Here is my discovery -

In the Chinese painting, the abstract art first was traced back in Tang Dynasty (7-10th c.) by the technique called splashed-ink painting style.

Example (scroll down after the text): Both works were discovered in Song Dynasty (12th c.), 1st one titled “immoral in splashed ink”, 2nd one titled “Mountain market, clearing mist”.

The same goes to the Abstraction of early art in many cultures, for instance, Chinese calligraphy, Islamic calligraphy -
“signs and marks on pottery, textiles, and inscriptions and paintings on rock – used simple, geometric and linear forms which might have had a symbolic or decorative purpose. It is at this level of visual meaning that abstract art communicates.
One can enjoy the beauty of Chinese calligraphy or Islamic calligraphy without being able to read it.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_art
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calligraphy

Immoral in splashed ink

Mountain market, clearing mist