The ink brush is an essential tool in Chinese calligraphy. Many famous artists even have brushes made exclusively for them. Brush-making skills are passed on through generations.

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In the exhibition titled "Poetics of Chunyang: Transgression and Invocation of A Tradition," Chinese artist Li Chunyang, currently a visiting scholar at Harvard University, conjures the soul of ...

Creative painting using Chinese ink brush. From rural roots to artistic stardom. By Li Hang Published: Mar 19, 2024 11:24 PM.

The Chinese Art of Writing. New York: Skira/Rizzoli, 1990. Harrist, Robert, and Wen Fong. The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection. Princeton: Art Museum, Princeton ...

Invented in China around 300 B.C.E, the bamboo brush was originally intended solely for traditional calligraphy and ink painting styles. When grouped together with the inkstone, inkstick, and xuan ...

In his book Huzhou Writing Brush and Chinese Culture published by Peking University Press in 2010, the scholar Ma Qingyun quotes Zhou Ruchang (1918-2012), a scholar, poet and calligrapher, as ...

In the early phases of his artistic career in the 1960s, Liu already began making innovations in ink. Focusing on the use of materials, he invented his own paper, aptly named Liu Kuo-sung Paper, a ...