Figure, landscape, and flower-and-bird paintings are important traditional Chinese painting genres, still highly valued today. Contemporary Chinese painting and calligraphy are still very active.

Still in northern Morocco, a small workshop has been established to teach Moroccan and Arabic calligraphy to children and younger people. It's supervised by calligrapher Mohamed Charqaoui.

Chinese calligraphy has always been more than simply a tool for communication, incorporating as it does the element of artistry for which the practice is still valued in an age of ballpoint pens and ...

Calligraphy is a rewarding hobby that is fairly inexpensive to get in to. For someone just starting out, poster nibs are a great way to practice making letterforms without worrying about applying ...

Once a practical way to transcribe, calligraphy has evolved into a fine art. As the practice we recognize today spread across East Asia, countries like China, Japan, and Korea developed their own ...