Wangiping brush factory donated brushes to the “Great Chinese Calligraphy and Painting” exhibition

“The Great Chinese Calligraphy and Painting” exhibition, which took place on September 20-22 in Sokolniki Park, scored a great success. On top of approximately 400 calligraphy and painting artworks from all across China, the event exhibited calligraphy tools to help shape a more complete idea of the art of calligraphy, and the associated creative process. Paper, brush, ink, and ink slab are treated as the main calligraphy tools, or the so called “four treasures of a calligrapher’s office.” Wangiping, a partner of the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy, and one of the oldest brush factories in the People’s Republic of China located in Zhejiang province, provided the brushes for the exhibition. The factory is listed among the intangible cultural heritage of China for maintaining the unique technology of making brushes entirely by hand. The process of making a high quality brush is not supposed to be mechanized, similarly to the process of producing traditional musical instruments, such as guqin.

Donated brushes made of various materials to be exhibited in the Museum, were much noticed.

Exhibition guests see Wangiping calligraphy brushes