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Hands-on experience with Chinese painting in the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy
On Sunday, February 5, the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy has seen a traditional Chinese painting workshop dubbed The Guohua Style Fire Rooster, coincided with the celebration of the Chinese New Year.
Calligraphy and Music about Love workshop on February 12
We are excited to invite you to the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy on February 12 where we will talk and write about love! Calligraphy as the art of fine writing depicts the nature of time in a graphic fashion, with its own perception and style. You can hardly confuse austere and ornamental Blackletter with airy and elegant Copperplate. But there is one feeling that unites any writing style, which is love. Different history periods used to see people discover new facets of love.
Why Handwriting Matters in a Digital World
I’m all for digital communications, but I do think cursive writing and the handwritten word is important. When we receive something written by hand, it’s so much more personal and warmer. Writing notes by hand can be a great way of enhancing relationships; thank-you notes, in particular, are especially meaningful to recipients. Handwriting is part of our identity.
Show of abstract calligraphy in ArtSpace
See the work of Yemeni artist Nasser Al Aswadi at Art Space in Dubai this month. Al Aswadi lives and works in France and this is his first exhibition in the UAE. He uses calligraphy as a way to express his feelings and thoughts without them being specifically linked to language.
The Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy on air
Last Thursday, January 19th representatives of the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy were on air at Vse Svoi show of the Radio Moskvy radio station.
Calligraphy for all ages
On January 25, 2017 the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy hosted a charity tour for members of Novogireyevo social service centre, Ivanovsky branch. The attendees were keen to discover the exhibition, inquiring and asking questions to know the history of writing better.
Handwriting Day celebrated on January 23rd
The Global Handwriting Day is celebrated on January 23rd. This day has been established to remind about the special character of the handwriting, the need to practice and uniqueness of each individual's handwriting. The celebration was initiated by the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association (WIMA) that proclaimed the “handwriting” celebration to date on January 23rd.
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.
3-Day ‘National Calligraphy Exhibition’ to start from Jan 24
ISLAMABAD: A three-day `National Calligraphy Exhibition’ will be held from January 24 at National Arts Gallery, Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) with an objective to revive the diminishing art of calligraphy.
Calligraphy and typography school opens in Yekaterinburg
Calligraphy breakfasts launch in Yekaterinburg in February – weekly calligraphy meetings and workshops led by the school trainers.
Beautiful art of Persian penmanship
Nine award-winning artists and calligraphers from Iran create magic at the ongoing Dastkari Haat Crafts Bazaar.
Residents of Orenburg to discover calligraphy
A calligraphy workshop will be held in the governor’s museum on January 12, where members of the White Company live history club and museum team will teach calligraphy to the residents of Orenburg.
Thousands of Japanese competed in writing characters
A calligraphy competition marked the beginning of the year for the Japanese as 5 thousand people aged from 3 to 93 gathered at Nippon Budokan, originally the judo stadium, to brush up their calligraphy writing the New Year wishes.
The New Year Speech of the Director of the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy
Dear friends! On behalf of the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy’s team let me wish you a happy New Year! Pretty soon we will step into 2017 with warm hopes and in anticipation of positive changes, while keeping the memories of the most vivid and meaningful events of the year gone by.
Calligraphers congratulate the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy on the New Year!
Participants of the International Exhibition of Calligraphy project keep up the good tradition of sending their artistic congratulations on the occasion of the coming season’s festivities
New Year greeting card from our young calligraphers
Last Saturday, December 24th, was this year’s final class of the children's calligraphy course. The class, unsurprisingly, was dedicated to the coming holidays: the students were to create New Year greeting cards. The teacher’s idea was that doing this, they should apply all the skills they have gained over the three months of studying pointed pen calligraphy. The kids were to create a greeting composition combining text and decorative elements, using pointed pen only
Creating inspiration for the New Year
Last Sunday, December 25th, the Brushes and Brush Pen Calligraphy workshop was held at the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy. The workshop was presented by Darina Biryulina, a young calligrapher, designer and graphic artist from Saint Petersburg. Darina shared her views on why calligraphy has been getting popular again; explained the difference between calligraphy and lettering; and demonstrated how to work with brushes and brush pen
Calligraphy 12 exhibition
Calligraphy 12 exhibition opens on December 22 at 18.00 in the Grand Hall of Sverdlovsk regional office of the Union of Russian Artists. The project will unite artists from Saint-Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk and Kazan in a single exhibition space offering the visitors to regard creative individuality and mastery of the artists.
The Saint John's Bible
For many years Donald Jackson, Senior Illuminator to Her Majesty's Crown Office, dreamed of creating a modern illuminated Bible to celebrate the new millennium. In November 1995, he presented the idea to Saint John's Benedictine Abbey & University in Minnesota. Work started in 2000 and was initially scheduled for completion in 2007, but in fact the final word was only penned in May 2011 and touch-up work completed by December 2011. Total cost of the project was over £2 million.
“SuperPlasticizer” Vincent Abadie Hafez aka Zepha at Dubai’s The Mine
Over the years French artist Vincent Abadie Hafez aka Zepha practice has expanded from its urban beginnings to the gallery wall, but responsiveness to the built environment, borne of a deep study of each locale, remains central. For this new body of paintings, the artist uses a superplasticizer mixed with cement, rubble, and sand from the streets of Dubai—the raw materials of the city—to create texturally rich canvases.
Now we’re ready for the festivities: Seasons Greetings Card workshop at the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy
Last Sunday, December 18th, the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy hosted the Season’s Greetings Card workshop.The workshop programme was quite intense: after a brief introduction to the history of greeting cards from the workshop conductor, designer and calligrapher Yekaterina Orfanova, participants had to try and grasp the basics of writing with the pointed pen.
Pointed and Broad Pen workshop
We are excited to invite you to the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy on January 4 and 5 to join the Pointed and Broad Pen Greeting Calligraphy workshop by Artyom Lebedev, teacher of the National School of Calligraphy!
Old Russian Calligraphy. Christmas Angel workshops will be held in Kazan
The Museum of History of the Kazan Kremlin Annunciation Cathedral has launched an Old Russian calligraphy workshop. Artist and script expert Vladislav Baranov helps pick up fine writing skills and produce original letter paintings, and also master one of the most complicated activities, according to some scientists
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