These visual elements were drawn on an artist’s body and face in the 1998 piece 1/2 (“one-half”) and the 2000 piece Family Tree. Four of these visual elements make up the rightmost section of the painting The Remaining Mountain. A goose-loving artist drew these elements using a set of “eight principles.” These elements make up an artwork that immortalizes a drinking contest at the “Orchard Pavilion.” In the 1980s, an artist made 4,000 carvings that resemble these elements for his installation A Book From the Sky. Artists often train by copying a thousand of these elements that comprise a “classic” set drawn by Wang Xizhi (“wong shee-jurr”), who used the “four treasures of study” to draw them in styles like “regular” and “semi-cursive.” For 10 points, name these symbols stroked with ink in Chinese calligraphy. ■END■
ANSWER: Chinese characters [or Chinese letters; accept Chinese words or Chinese names; accept zì or Hànzì or kanji or Hanja or Hancha or Hán tự; accept sinograms or Chinese logograms; accept Chinese calligraphy until read; accept Chinese text or Chinese writing; prompt on text, writing, or scripts; prompt on scrolls by asking “what was drawn on the scrolls?”] (The two performance pieces are by Zhang Huan. The Remaining Mountain is the first half of the painting Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains. Wang Xizhi drew on the “Eight Principles of Yong” and is sometimes credited with composing the Thousand Character Classic. A Book From the Sky is by Xu Bing.)
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