This is not a Print!
This "fighting / combat" Chinese calligraphy art scroll is created by the disabled
artist.
Approximate Measurements:
Length of Silk Scroll: 48.2" (122cm)
Width of Wooden Scroll Roller: 18.6" (47cm)
Traditional
Chinese Characters
Simplified
Chinese Characters & pinyin
Fighting arts are systems of codified practices
and traditions of training for combat. While they may be studied for various
reasons, martial arts have very similar objectives: to physically defeat other
persons and to defend oneself or others from physical threat. In addition, some
martial arts are linked to beliefs such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism,
Confucianism or Shinto while others follow a particular code of honor. Many arts
are also practiced competitively, most commonly as combat sports, but may also
take the form of dance.
The term martial arts refers to the art of
warfare (from Mars, the god of war). It comes from a 15th-century European term
for fighting arts now known as historical European martial arts. A practitioner
of martial arts is referred to as a martial artist.
In popular culture, the term martial arts often
specifically refers to Asian fighting styles, especially the combat systems that
originated in East Asia. However, the term actually refers to any codified
combat system, regardless of origin. Europe is home to many extensive systems of
martial arts, both living traditions (e.g. Jogo do Pau and other stick and sword
fencing and Savate, a French kicking style developed by sailors and street
fighters) and older systems of historical European martial arts that have
existed through the present, many of which are now being reconstructed. In the
Americas, Native Americans have traditions of open-handed martial arts including
wrestling, and Hawaiians have historically practiced arts featuring small- and
large-joint manipulation. A mix of origins is found in the athletic movements of
Capoeira, which African slaves developed in Brazil based on skills they had
brought from Africa.
While each style has unique facets that make it
different from other martial arts, a common characteristic is the
systematization of fighting techniques. Methods of training vary and may include
sparring (simulated combat) or formal sets or routines of techniques known as
forms or kata. Forms are especially common in the Asian and Asian-derived
martial arts.
Talented Disabled
Artists create this 'Combat / Fighting / Grapple / Wrestle / Fistfight' Chinese calligraphy wall scroll!
When I first saw a person
without hands who could not only write but also became a good calligrapher, I
was shocked.
Disabled artist, Mr. Wang, has sat in a wheelchair more than 30 years after a catastrophic
accident during fieldwork left him paralyzed from the waist down. Master Wang was
gracefully moving and pausing his brush that can be mesmerizing, and there is one
of his artworks on display here.
