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date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:34 PM
subject: Brad the Art Guy : Business is steady.
I'm in Hong Kong now and in my class we're looking at Chinese folk religion at the moment, so I went looking for a picture of Laozi and found this ... thought you might enjoy it.
Blog: Brad the Art Guy
Post: Business is steady.
Link: http://bradtheartguy.blogspot.com/2010/10/business-is-steady.html
"There was a man in North Carolina who got me to draw a portrait of Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, which he had transferred to his arm by a talented tattoo artist."
Brad the Art Guy's rendition of 道德經 looks nothing like the real thing.
Looks like the result of some guy treating the characters as pictures. 德 vaguely resembles the character, but what he put down doesn't look like any kind of calligraphy style I've seen.
ReplyDeleteDont know if you guys noticed, but the 經 is supposed to be the simplified character 经 and therefore, desipite still being - for want of a better word - a mockery of Chinese because it doesn't really resemble the characters either way, at least it's closer than the traditional character, but what happened to the complete left radical on 道？
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