The Cicadas Chinese Calligraphy Club draws upon ancient tradition ... Zong said members wrote Chinese couplets – 14 word poems split into two groups of seven – on red paper and stuck them ...

By Jerrine Tan At the start of my first lesson in Chinese calligraphy, my teacher told ... I was — in a word — seduced. Growing up in Singapore, I had a fraught relationship with my Chinese ...

The written words were cherished as works of art ... a recreation of the kind of Chinese salon in which calligraphy was sometimes painted and displayed. Elegant works by Dong Qichang (1555-1636 ...

Exhibition of Buddhist sutras, though written in Chinese for a religion ... The 12th-century hand scroll is on display in “Words of Wisdom: Buddhist Calligraphy from Japan” at the Freer ...

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Summoning Memories features artists of Chinese descent who negotiate the long legacy of Chinese calligraphy and ink painting through alternative approaches. Xu Bing, "Square Word Calligraphy - The ...

“Chinese Calligraphy “Shu Fa ... It is a set of skills and techniques for positioning and inscribing words so they show integrity, harmony, rhythm and creative fire,” he added.