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 ...

According to Chinese lore, "ink monkeys" were an itty-bitty variety of primate trained to mix ink, ... (No adorable ink monkeys swung out of the forest to assist in writing up the team's findings, ...