Year of the Tiger Calligraphy
by Oiyee At Oystudio
Title
Year of the Tiger Calligraphy
Artist
Oiyee At Oystudio
Medium
Painting - Chinese Ink
Description
This is my Chinese wild grass calligraphy for "tiger".
2022 is the Year of the Tiger. The Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar, and the start of the year is based on the cycles of the moon, and this year it falls on February 1, 2022 (Chinese New Year Day). The Years of the Tiger are 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010 and 2022.
Chinese writing dates back to over 5000 years ago. Chinese characters evolved from pictographs to more abstract ideograms to the modern-day character, which bears a slight resemblance to its pictographic origins. The characters are divided into 3 main categories : pictographs , ideograms , phonograms.
"Tiger" 虎 is a pictograph. The original oracle bone script is a rough drawing of the animal. Here is my interpretation. You can see the head of the tiger at the top, the stripes in the middle, and the crouching body and tail at the bottom right.
Artist: Tai Oi Yee
Website: oystudio.com
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January 20th, 2022
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