Coolligraphy

Coolligraphy is an unique art form developed by Daniel Nie (1957 - ), using the principle of ancient oriental characters to transform and create names or words into stylish hieroglyphic designs.
Daniel Nie is a leading Chinese-American Artist. He often uses the term "Coolligraphy" for his new painting style.
Nie's Coolligraphy breaks through a new "Visual Art Territory."
If we want to categorize Daniel Nie’s paintings it would be with two words:
modern art.
“It is a product generated from the artist’s inspiration if the phenomena
in the modern world that he has associated with,” this is how Nie defines his
art work which he calls “Coolligraphy.” Nie challenges all the conventional
visual art forms in the history of art. He uses the letters from a word or
words to create a painting, which reveals a possible visual mutation that is
beyond our routine imagination. In his painting titled “Birthday Night: i
below C among the E,” is a “U-turn” from our conventional wisdom.
When we deal with letters like i e c we do not automatically
think the i below C among the E as a picture of a candle light under the moon
with music but rather we remember the rule of i before e except after c...
Nie is asking us to think outside of the box.
Daniel Nie was born in Shanghai, China, and he came to the United States on
a full art scholarship in 1981. Nie holds a B.A. from Wake Forest University,
North Carolina and an M.A., M.F.A. from American University, Washington, D.C.
The dramatic changes in his personal life
from East to West, from an era of typewriters and rotary phones to the age
of computers and cell phones has made this artist think and question more.
Like many people, the artist often wonders: how can we bring jobs back to
the US? What strategies could be taken for the Iraq war? Do we really have
solutions for our health care system? etc. Nie is not an expert in a field
for all these questions but as an artist, he knows that in order to understand
those current affairs, he needs to see the world in a new way. His art invites
people to explore a totally new “visual territory.” "It is essential for us
to see the world not just from a different perspective or dimension but to
comprehend the reality in the new territory," he said.

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