The fine art of calligraphy plays an important role in our cultural life today. When I speak of our cultural life I am referring to the tactile intelligence of the brush as a vehicle for transmitting important human values. Ming-Chip Fung is an artist with a supreme gift. He carries the tradition of this fine art. To make a mark on paper with the brush represents a point of transition. The mark or the stroke can go in two directions. It can represent a picture-language, but it can also represent a language-picture. It can
give us a message about who the artist is as a transmitter of an important cultural heritage. Ming-Chip is such an artist. By knowing the basics, he is capable of going in whatever direction he chooses. He can tell us something else with language. Ming-Chip Fung is an abstract artist, an advanced thinker with relation to art, who is bringing the art of calligraphy into the present-day. He is an inventor of new ideas through language and picture.
Robert C. Morgan
Art Critic
New York City
December 1998