One year ago, as the art market shivered in the global economic downturn, few would have predicted a warm outcome to the big autumn auctions of 2009, barometers of market confidence. Contrary to most ...

A guest takes photos of exhibits as she attends the press conference of an exhibition on the calligraphy and painting of Su Shi at the Palace Museum in Beijng, capital of China, Aug. 31, 2020. An ...

Visitors appreciate the paintings and calligraphy works at the exhibition held at Shanghai’s Painting and Calligraphy Gallery, which has been newly established in Jiangqiao town, near Shanghai’s ...

Discover how to create a stunning mixed media painting featuring Islamic calligraphy for Ramadan. This step-by-step art tutorial walks you through preparing the canvas, using gold and black paint, ...

The Ministry of Culture called Xiaoxian county, in Anhui province, the "Home of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy" back in 1993. Its painting and calligraphy have a long history and can be traced back ...

In his latest exhibition, Golzari Hosseini will showcase 15 works of art on the theme of expressing the artist’s feelings towards his surroundings. The artist has deemed the aim of this exhibition as ...

A performance is staged to celebrate the opening of the "The Historical Expression of Chinese Art: Calligraphy and Painting from the National Museum of China" exhibition at the National Museum of ...

Chinese characters evolved from pictures and signs, and the Chinese art of calligraphy developed naturally from its unique writing system. Every dynasty had its great calligraphers, whose calligraphic ...

Paintings by an artist or artists of the Tosa School, "Scenes and Calligraphic Excerpts from The Tale of Genji" (Japan, Momoyama [1573–1615] or Edo period [1615–1868], early 17th century), pair of six ...

This exhibition of contemporary Arabic calligraphy paintings aims to blend Arabic language with the beauty of colour. A script is beautiful in its own right but, when given a contemporary touch by ...

A passionate Chinese calligrapher has spent a month making a gigantic writing brush and hopes to set a new world record with it. Cheng Yufei, from Luoyang city in China's Hunan Province, handcrafted ...