Study on the Emotional Image of Calligraphy Strokes based on Sentiment Analysis

Calligraphy is usually regarded as the art of handwriting lines, because calligraphic strokes can express rich affective information and trigger rich imaginations. Traditional calligraphy theory and modern aesthetics discussed much on this topic, but are mostly based on personal experience, and thus we can't know how the public feel about calligraphic strokes. This study proposes an educational experiment integrating aesthetic and science and engineering to explore the emotional image of calligraphy strokes, which has the dual value of research and teaching. The experiment requires every participant to fully feel and imagine based on the chosen calligraphic strokes, and to freely choose a theme and write an article. Finally, we apply sentiment analysis on all the articles, do quantitative analysis and data visualization, and thus show the rich subjective image of the typical strokes of twelve famous historical calligraphers.