Chinese calligraphy is more than brush-and-ink writing — it embodies Confucianism, Taoism, Zen Buddhism, and yin and yang ...

The history of calligraphy—the art of handwriting as a medium of expression beyond the meaning of words themselves—could be generically traced to the earliest found symbols. There was a time when ...

The "Thousand-character Essay in Cursive Script" was written by Zhao Ji (1082-1135), Emperor Huizong in the Song Dynasty (960-1279). He was not a very successful emperor, but a remarkably accomplished ...

The human eye is remarkably good at spotting mistakes. When looking at a wordmark that has been around for nearly a century, ...

Cursive script for the Roman alphabet can vary from country to country and can reveal much about where and how you were taught, writes Adrienne Bernhard. Cursive eulogies are everywhere these days, ...

The "Autobiography" is a representative work of calligrapher Huai Su (737-799) in his later years in the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Huai was a monk as well as a devotee of the art of cursive script. His ...