Guohua Style Fire Rooster workshop on February, 5

In China the New Year is the spring holiday, commencing at a different moment every year governed by the lunar calendar. This year the Chinese will celebrate the New Year starting on January 27th and through almost a whole month, till February 11th. According to the Chinese calendar, 2017 is the Fire or Red Rooster Year.

The Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy is happy to offer you an opportunity to get in touch with the Chinese culture and celebrate the Chinese New Year at our Guohua Style Fire Rooster workshop dedicated to the traditional Chinese painting technique of guohua.

Guohua is a traditional Chinese art that wins with its beauty and power of lines, a dynamic combination of ink, colours and white paper. While it carries an antiquity breath, it is as contemporary as you can get. The Chinese art focuses on nature and its fluidity, as well as the interaction between human and nature.

Traditional guohua is imbued with symbols, underlying meaning and affable inscriptions.

The Chinese painting utilizes special materials united by the Four Jewels of the Study term, which are ink, ink stone, brush and paper or silk. Special colours or so called Chinese mineral colours are utilized too, properties of which resemble what we know as watercolours.

The workshop will introduce one of the traditional guohua Chinese painting or sei style.

The sei style or the art of the idea is characterized with free motion and spontaneity. Such paintings are produced in a single session. This style is akin to calligraphy. A special focus is given to the balance of black and white, empty and filled area.

Olga Alexeyeva, architect, artist, Chinese painting teacher, author of lectures and articles on the history of Chinese and Japanese art, will teach the workshop.

She spent several years learning the Chinese painting with Mrs. Li Ixiao, taking lessons from sei and calligraphy expert Jian Shilun, gongbi expert Yan Dunjian, Chinese watercolour expert Ping Long, and completed multiple internships in Liaoning University in Anshan, China.

Olga started teaching basics of the Chinese art in 2012, including gongbi (careful brush), sei (the art of the idea) and mogu-fa (no bone method) in Chainka oriental culture studio in Moscow. She is a regular participant of various Chinese painting exhibitions in Moscow museums and galleries.

Works by Olg Alexeyeva

The Fire Rooster image is closely connected with affable characters and symbolizes happiness. The Chinese believe an image of a rooster will lend happiness and good fortune to the family.

By the end of the workshop participants will produce cards and a small piece that will serve greatly as a gift and interior decoration.

All the materials necessary will be provided.
The workshop is designed for any level, including first timers with a brush.

What: Guohua Style Fire Rooster workshop
Where: The Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy
When: February 5th, 04.00 pm
Duration: 2 hrs
Participation fee: 1 500 rub.
Materials, instruments: provided
Level of participants: any

Registration required: +7 495-728-77-58 or +7 916-002-90-09

Guohua Style Fire Rooster workshop