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A short film with a Chinese calligrapher 3 Jul 2013 | 11:15 pm
Adam Baroukh made a short movie about an Chinese calligrapher and thought he’d share it with our Chinese calligraphists’ online community. We hope you enjoy watching it. Thank you, Adam! Ideograms of...
Say hello to the AsianBrushPainter 20 Aug 2012 | 10:38 am
Dear customers, This is the first website and webshop that my mom May Wang started about two years ago. Mom set it up with the goal of creating a platform where lovers of Chinese Calligraphy from the ...
East Asian Calligraphy 9 Nov 2011 | 12:38 pm
Just found a good article – written like a personal reflection or essay rather than an encyclopedic description of calligraphy – on Wikipedia: East Asian calligraphy is a form of calligraphy widely p...
Become a millionaire with calligraphy! 31 May 2011 | 11:20 pm
According to Xinhua, a painting by the contemporary Chinese artist Qi Baishi was sold in Beijing for $65 million (425.5 million Chinese yuan)! This is a record high for contemporary and modern Chinese...
Chinese Calligraphy using 43 different body parts 16 Apr 2011 | 11:52 am
Extreme calligraphist Cao Ruiqin, 44, is doing calligraphy using his eyes, ear hole, nostrils, finger gap, wrist, armpit, belly button, elbow and knee joints.. Now he wants to apply for a Guinness Wo...
Lanting International Calligraphy Festival 16 Apr 2011 | 10:56 am
From April 5 to May 3 of 2011 the 27th Lanting International Calligraphy Festival is taking place in Lanting, Shaoxing, China’s north-eastern Zhejiang province. It’s famous for a lot of activities, ex...
Your Chinese Name 16 Apr 2011 | 10:41 am
Except the fact that finding “your” chinese name is a big thing (it took more than one year for my chinese friends to find “my” chinese name) because it might link your western name as well as your pe...
A short biography of Yan Zhenqing (颜真卿) 26 Dec 2010 | 01:04 pm
Yan Zhenqing (709-785) was a remarkable calligrapher during the Tang dynasty with the courtesy name of Qing Chen (清臣). Yan Zhenqing was honored as one of the Four Masters of Kai Shu whose writing styl...
Yan Zhenqing – the creator of the Yan Style and the most innovative calligrapher of his time 26 Dec 2010 | 01:04 pm
Yan learned Kai Shu from the Four Masters of the early Tang Dynasty all of whom were great scholars and calligraphists. His role model for Cao Shu script though was Zhang Xu. He also learned Zhuan Shu...
Yan Jin Liu Gu – Muscle of Yan and Bone of Liu – Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan, the congenial calligraphy masters of Tang Dynasty 26 Dec 2010 | 01:03 pm
In traditional Chinese sources, Yan Zhenqing is often referred to by the term “Muscle of Yan and Bone of Liu” (Yan Jin Liu Gu / 颜筋柳骨), together with Liu Gongquan – a later calligraphist during Tang Dy...
