Described as "wonderfully meditative and elegant", the art of calligraphy is gaining popularity in Durban. Collaborations with painters has seen this lettering tradition thriving for centuries.

Like music, calligraphy is an art of time and space. The interconnections between strokes and characters are shown by the ... [Photo provided to China Daily] No later than the Western Zhou Dynasty ...

When the Avignon-born Jesuit Alexandre de Rhodes published the first Portuguese-Vietnamese-Latin dictionary under his own ...

At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks of Vietnam's unique modern script, in part a ...

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While my studies were grounded in Chinese ink painting, my early training in Western sketching ... white" effect (a style of calligraphy characterized by hollow strokes). A paintings of a tiger ...

“Western and Chinese calligraphy are very similar – in terms of techniques there’s a flow and rhythm in the strokes and how you frame the words. Both are also very meditative,” says ...

Born in Hubei in central China, Yi Ming mastered techniques of calligraphy and painting early ... fusing Eastern and Western traditions and both traditional and modern approaches to visual ...

"With the help of calligraphy strokes, I have tried to create 3D art. And along with the 3D effect, I have used colour combinations to create immersive art," he explains. Jayant’s works aren’t ...

In 324 characters Wang, who was acclaimed for his skill in calligraphy, expressed joy at ... What might be considered vandalism on a Western painting merely adds to the price of this one.

Though calligraphy is often taught systematically, Wang said calligraphers imbue their work with personal style through composition, use of fonts and thickness of brush strokes. Wang added that ...

Like music, calligraphy is an art of time and space. The interconnections between strokes and characters ... to China Daily] No later than the Western Zhou Dynasty (c.11th century-771 BC) had ...