Art in Japan often comes from a philosophical standpoint, where the process is equally important as the result. This is particularly true when it comes to the Japanese calligraphy art of shodo. On the ...

If your handwriting is beautiful, learning calligraphy can be a great idea to get amazing handwriting for writing special letters or notes for your loved ones. While calligraphy was traditionally done ...

The art of turning plain writings into stunningly beautiful script is called calligraphy. Calligraphy is like magic, where you can pick up your pen wand, and make the words and the alphabets move and ...

Calligraphy in ancient Korea was a creative activity reserved for the cultured class. Great thinkers expressed philosophies with calligraphy, sometimes accompanied with paintings, and exchanged them.

In East Asia, there is a long-standing theory that calligraphy and painting have the same origins. However, calligraphy in Korea failed to keep up with the times as the country went through Japanese ...

Calligraphy is one of the most stark and straightforward forms of artistic tenor, hence an anonymous person describes it as: “More powerful than all poetry, more pervasive than all science, more ...

Islamic calligraphy was developed from Arabic writing that predates Islam. Calligraphy is used as a marker of religious and intellectual cultivation, and is used to inscribe the word of God through ...

Under a little white tent at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., an artist named Ruben Malayan is teaching kids and visitors how to write the letter "A" in Armenian calligraphy.

Qamar Dagar, a pictorial calligrapher organised Qalam Aatma, an international calligraphy exhibition for the first time in the Capital. What is the idea behind this initiative? Promotion of the modern ...

So much beauty, aesthetics, culture and tradition in the narrow lanes of Pakistan Chowk is hard to imagine, I thought as stepped into Mohammed Iftikhar’s shop. After meeting this calligrapher with ...