Calligraphy (A Comprehensive Guide to Beautiful Lettering)
Discover the timeless art of beautiful writing! This introduction to creating calligraphy combines beginner-friendly clarity with thorough guidance and gorgeous examples.
You have constantly admired beautiful calligraphy, but you almost certainly figured it was way as well hard to master, proper ? Calligraphy is actually a lot less difficult than you ever dreamed. All you need to have is the appropriate tutorial and you will be up to pace in no time!
Words and images: Chinese poetry, calligraphy, and painting
In May of 1985, an international symposium was held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in honor of John M. Crawford, Jr., whose gifts of Chinese calligraphy and painting have constituted a significant addition to the Museum's holdings. Over a three-day period, senior scholars from China, Japan, Taiwan, Europe, and the United States expressed a wide range of perspectives on an issue central to the history of Chinese visual aesthetics
The Written Image: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection
Calligraphy is often regarded as the purest manifestation of an artist's inner character and level of cultivation, as well as the expression of his soul, thoughts, and feelings. This publication presents some fifty-eight Japanese works, almost all calligraphy, from the remarkable collection formed over the last forty years by Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, literary scholars who became enraptured by the Japanese art of the brush. Their holdings, virtually unique outside Japan, not only embody a fundamental aspect of Japanese culture but also testify to the growing sophistication of Americans' engagement with other cultures.
