In Chinese calligraphy, the white space (空白 kōng bái) is as important as the ink. It reflects the Daoist concept of emptiness ...

Calligraphy, literally "beautiful writing," has been appreciated as an art form in many different cultures throughout the world, but the stature of calligraphy in Chinese culture is unmatched. In ...

Around AD 300 the Chinese developed a solid ink that could be stored as a stick or cake. When you wanted to do some writing, you shaved some ink off the stick and mixed it with water.

For example, Zheng Chongbin’s large ink painting “New Six Canons (Xin Liufa)” (2012) references a fifth-century text on the fundamentals of Chinese ink painting, while Zhang Hongtu’s ...

Asia Society Museum's new exhibition, Revolutionary Ink: The Paintings of Wu Guanzhong, which opens tonight in New York City, marks the first posthumous retrospective in the United States of the ...

His creation, AI Gemini, is an AI-driven robot that creates traditional Chinese landscape paintings — the “first-ever artificial intelligence ink artist in the world,” according to 3812 ...

To linguists, they are the earliest systemic Chinese characters,” said Mo. Moreover, “records of solar eclipses, lunar eclipses and meteor showers found in oracle bone inscriptions can be merged with ...