One of the most interesting and least discussed anomalies in art is the painter who masters two completely different languages, such as figuration and abstraction. There are obvious cases, for ...

Picture shows beautiful calligraphic handwriting. The art of calligraphy demonstrates how skillful a person's handwriting can be. Writing comes to life through calligraphy and captures the mind.

An exhibition at the Getty unleashes the dynamic character of Holbein’s portraits in ways I’ve never seen before. Hans Holbein the Younger, “Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey” (about 1532–33), black and ...

Can art ever ignore contemporary politics? Yes, say the organisers of a new exhibition of calligraphic art from Iran and Hong Kong, especially when the art is based on thousands of years of cultural ...

When I first encountered the work of the architect and painter Anthony Candido, it was moving—or rather, the dancers whose costumes he had splashed with black paint were moving across the floor in a ...

Most of us think of calligraphy as an elegant form of writing, grand for wedding invitations and formal announcements, but just writing. “Calligraphic Abstraction,” at the Seattle Asian Art Museum ...

ISLAMABAD: In honour of the auspicious month of Ramazan, Satrang Gallery held an inauguration of Hurouf, its third Annual Calligraphy Exhibition. Masters Ahmad Khan and Rasheed Butt, whose paintings ...

A calligraphic work by independence fighter Ahn Jung-geun (1879–1910), written while in prison, has been returned to Korea. The Gyeonggi provincial government announced Thursday that it successfully ...

Shahnawaz Ahmad Sofi, an artisan from Rathpora Eidgah in Srinagar, has earned widespread recognition for reviving Kashmir's centuries-old Pashmina weaving tradition by integrating modern calligraphic ...