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Men have developed various means of literal communication as differentiated from animals, have diversified the means of expression for such communication, and have proposed different literal expressions as a part of new culture for each age. The means of literal expression have been differently char...

Men have developed various means of literal communication as differentiated from animals, have diversified the means of expression for such communication, and have proposed different literal expressions as a part of new culture for each age. The means of literal expression have been differently characterized or varied whenever each new age came out. So character amounts to a part of daily cultural expressions for each contemporary age. Indeed, it seems very encouraging that such a literal expression can create a world of harmonious mentality and emotionality as a part of art. In particular, this is an outstanding phenomenon in the East Asian cultural area of Chinese characters (i.e. Korea, China and Japan). Among others, it is calligraphy-based literal expressions that make a significant difference of Oriental formative art from Western one. However, Oriental calligraphy meets Western one in the sense that both of them seek to express literal means with quality of artistic values and mental culture, which means that calligraphy entails more mental and ideological aspects than simple writing work. Hence, this is the time for us to have more needs to research Korean and Western calligraphy as a part of potential cultural elements than ever, which will be expectedly developed and applied in more extended fields in the future. This study introduces even humble calligraphic artworks of the author hereof to examine possible applications of calligraphy, particularly focusing on Korean calligraphy. Oriental calligraphy has very similar aspects as Western calligraphy in both formative and artistic aspects. Based on mentality and artistry inherited through strokes and ink marks, the calligraphy has sustained as a literal art for expression of human emotional inner world beyond simple outward beauty throughout a long history of civilization. In addition, it is real calligraphy that should contain any implied meaning of each character in different fonts, not any simple penmanship using brush, and should be expressed with humane and emotional fonts enough to help viewers to easily understand and enjoy calligraphic expressions. Conclusively, it is important to facilitate balanced development of calligraphy through attempting various changes based on traditional calligraphic techniques beyond a mode of certain age. Moreover, it is required to research Korean and Western calligraphy as a part of art category with developmental values and potential and express whatsoever is real Korean with a sense of Korean values.