L'écriture folle, facette chinoise de l'extase lettrée

Abstract

The wild cursive script is a kind of Chinese calligraphy created by the Taoist Zhang Xu (695-759) and the Zen monk Huaisu (725-785). Its peculiarity is that it is performed only when the artist is drunk. It is representative of the Zen Art, developed from the conjunction of Zhuang zi's Taoist philosophy and Bodhidharma's buddhist philosophy. The wild cursive script is a kind of Chinese calligraphy created by the Taoist Zhang Xu (695-759) and the Zen monk Huaisu (725-785). Its peculiarity is that it is performed only when the artist is drunk. It is representative of the Zen Art, developed from the conjunction of Zhuang zi's Taoist philosophy and Bodhidharma's buddhist philosophy.