CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY 

4, 11, 18 and 25 October

11:00-12:30

CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY

Workshop

DOCUMENTATION CENTRE

Price: € 30.00/four sessions

Age range: 12+

No. of participants: Minimum of 10 and maximum of 20.

Participation subject to prior registration.

Discover the charms of this ageless art, gain an understanding as to its evolution and learn the basic techniques involved in mastering the brush and the paint and explore the works of historical calligraphers.

A work of calligraphy, with the perfection of its strokes, the correspondence between the elements making up a character, the balance and symmetry in the lay out of its structure, the contrast between the various compositional factors blending concept, thought, spirit as well as the style of the individual calligrapher, produces a very special aesthetic sensation.

Over the course of 5,000 years of Chinese civilisation, writing became a unique art due to its pictographic characteristics. Traditionally, the characters are traced with very specific writing material and instruments such as Chinese brush and ink on paper purpose manufactured from the roots of certain trees, bamboo, rice husk, some silk fibres and cotton.

PROGRAM

FIRST SESSION (4 OCTOBER)

  •  Introduction to the history of Chinese writing
  •  Techniques, movements and brush holding positions
  •  How to use models
  •  Practical exercises

SECOND SESSION (11 OCTOBER):

  •  Examples of historical works of calligraphy
  •  Analysis of characteristics, strokes, lines, the correspondence between strokes and sections, balance and flexibility, structure, spatial distribution, contrast, quantity and size
  •  Practical exercises

THIRD SESSION (18 OCTOBER):

  •  Differing styles for the same character
  •  Caoshu, freestyle calligraphy
  •  Modern calligraphy as an abstract art
  •  Practical exercises

FIFTH SESSION (25 OCTOBER):

  •  Preparatory techniques for brushes and inks and recourse to rice paper for special effects
  •  Selecting your beginning style
  •  How to obtain calligraphic materials: brushes, rice paper, ink, ink-holders and other materials
  •  The artistic signature seal of a calligraphist: personal, pseudonym or studio name
  •  Practical exercises