The 3 Perfections
What are the 3 Perfections?
Painting, poetry and calligraphy
What was painting a combination of?
The 3 perfections
What type of people were expected to write poetry?
All educated people were expected to write poetry.
Calligraphy is the art of what?
Calligraphy is the art of handwriting.
What were the topics that Bella and Lily talked about?
The 3 perfections, painting, poetry and calligraphy.
When was Calligraphy first used?
Song Dynasty
What would professional painters combine their writing and poetry with what?
The would combine it with paintings of landscapes.
What did poets have to be really good at?
Calligraphy
What are you called if you do calligraphy?
A calligrapher.
Poets had to be what?
Good Calligraphers
What are the 3 Perfections mostly used in?
Art
What sizes could they be? Give an example.
Small enough to fit inside a picture frame or big enough to fit on a palace wall. (Answers may vary)
When was poetry very important and what was it the foundation for?
It was very important in the Tang Dynasty and it was the foundation for many jobs.
Calligraphers spend years of their lives perfecting what?
Calligraphers spend years of their lives perfecting their handwriting.
Finish the sentence: Paintings almost always included ________.
Poetry or some sort of writing.
Finish the sentence: The 3 perfections were first used in the ______ Dynasty.
Song
Painting was a big combination of ______.
The 3 Perfections
Finish the sentence: Every ______ person in China was expected to write poetry.
Educated
How many characters do calligraphers strive to write perfectly?
40,000
Finish the sentence: Paintings could be _____ enough to fit in a picture frame or big enough to fit on a palace wall.
small
Finish the sentence: The 3 perfections are used in almost ____ Chinese paintings.
All (Answers may vary but all answers must be synonyms.)
In this form of art, professional painters would combine their writing and poetry with _______.
Paintings
Finish the sentence: Poetry was the main foundation for _____.
Jobs
Every character has to be written perfectly but with what type of style?
Artistic style.
Finish the sentence: Calligraphers strive to write all _______ characters perfectly but with a little bit of artistic style.
40,000