This is not a
Print!
This Chinese calligraphy 'Flexibility as a sublime virtue' wall scroll is created by the disabled artist.
Typical Gallery Price: $100.00
Your Price: $49.88
Approximate Measurements:
Length of Silk Scroll: 59.3" (150cm)
Width of Wooden Scroll Roller: 18.6" (47cm)
Traditional or Simplified
Chinese Characters & pinyin
Four characters are pronounced ‘shàng shàn ruò shuǐ’. It means:" As good as water;
Flexibility as a sublime virtue; The highest excellence is like that of water".
The meaning of
this phrase is Taoistic basic thought. This thought was put forward by Lao Tzu, founder of
Taoist.
Highest good is like water.
Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes close to the way.
In a home it is the site that matters;
In quality of mind it is depth that matters;
In an ally it is benevolence that matters;
In speech it is good faith that matters;
In government it is order that matters;
In affairs it is ability that matters;
In action it is timeliness that matters.
It is because it does not contend that it is never at fault.
This phrase is from Chapter VIII of TaoDeJing (laozi-daodeching). This thought was put forward by Lao Tzu, 4th-century Chinese philosopher on whose teachings Lao-Tzu based Taoism, founder of Taoist.
Talented Disabled
Calligraphy Artist creates this 'Flexibility as a sublime virtue' Asian calligraphy art
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.
