The ink employed in calligraphy is usually made from lampblack ... Billeter, Jean François. The Chinese Art of Writing. New York: Skira/Rizzoli, 1990. Harrist, Robert, and Wen Fong. The Embodied Image ...

They seized his belongings and forbade him to paint or write. He then spent several years serving ... focusing intently on the ancient Chinese medium of ink. "It was very much the opposite of what ...

Christie’s has described the Song dynasty (960-1279) artwork as “one of the world’s rarest Chinese paintings”. Entitled Wood and Rock, the ink-on-paper handscroll depicts a dragon-like old ...