Pen vs Keyboard

There are several reasons for a modern man to get interested in calligraphy. Firstly, the office prisoners, glued to the screen and keyboard at work and at home would find using a pen for a change, remembering (or discovering) the long-forgotten feel of it, quite refreshing. Secondly, in the rough sea of business plans and expiring deadlines calligraphy emerges as a fairy No Hurry island. The Moscow News (Moskovskie Novosti, newspaper) interrogated renowned calligrapher to find out where you can learn this rare art and what good it does.

Alexey Shaburov, Director of the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy

“We opened this museum in 2008 and the National School of Calligraphy – in 2010; thus we’ve gone a long way accumulating a collection of 3000 exhibits, attracting more and more eager calligraphy adepts every year. We are holding large international exhibitions twice a year, as well as VIP events on a monthly basis. Calligraphy helps us preserve history, for the time is nigh when handwriting shall dissolve into oblivion; we’ll preserve these brilliant chefs d’oeuvre so that our offspring could learn how beautiful the hand of their great-grandfathers was, transforming mere necessity into an art. Calligraphers” work is revered and recognized for they create the beautiful; and for some masters, in Korea, for example, it is their only means of subsistence.

Artyom Lebedev, teacher of the National School of Calligraphy

I’m an artist by profession, I graduated from an art school, later from an academy of art and culture, that’s why I’ve become part and parcel of this project. I’m training adults. We have a teacher for children as well – Nina Kozubova. On average, one group consists of 8-10 students, sometimes swelling up to 13-15 pers. We literally start with the elements – writing vertical lines, holding the pen properly. We have three levels: broad-nib pen, a bit of the history of calligraphy, and finally, the sharp-pointed nib pen.

Pen vs Keyboard

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