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extended essay subject: visual arts extended essay topic: caligraphy Supervisor: Mr.Hickey

**__General Outline__** Subject: visaul arts (calligraphy) Supervisor: Mr.Hickey Topic: Calligraphy Research Question (possible topics): 1. How did the calligraphy evolve throughout the Chinese history? 2. How can a westerner win the national calligraphy award? (reference to Mr. Conway) 3. What are the different styles of calligraphy? How do they differ from each other?

ü Is my topic too narrow/ too general? ü How am I going to organize the essay? Am I going to put interviews of calligrapher into my essay? Am I going to insert pictures or photos? ü Access to various resources (books, websites, interviews etc.)
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**__ Visual Arts __**I have searched many styles of arts in the very begining, for example, expressionism, impressionism, cubism and so on. My previous idea was to make a comparison between two similar art styles. However, I did not find it so interesting. Therefore I went and talked to my art teacher, Mr.Hickey. Throughout the discussion, I finally decided to do research in calligraphy. Calligraphy is a Chinese art which is also related to my own culture. There is a teacher in our school who had won the national awards of calligraphy. He is a westerner. I think it will be interesting if I interview him about his journey. There are a few questions I plan to ask: What made him so involved with calligraphy? How did he connect or relate to two different cultures together? Did he win the awards because he was the best or merely because he was a westerner? I am going to have personal contact with him as the use of local or primary resources. At the moment, I am doing research about chinese calligraphy and various styles of it. I have researched these in the Chinese websites and some online books.

Website that I used for the research: [|www.answers.com] [|www.google.com] www.baidu.com []

online Calligraphy books: = Learn Calligraphy: The Complete Book of Lettering and Design by Margaret Shepherd in Books = = The Art of Calligraphy by David Harris in Books =