Sentences with phrase «studied calligraphy»

After her time there, she immigrated to China, where she studied calligraphy and painting with renowned artist and poet Huang Yong Yu.

He studied calligraphy in Japan.

In the mid-1950s, Romare Bearden had become interested in Zen Buddhism and had studied calligraphy and Chinese landscape painting with a Chinese calligrapher.

When she began to study art she studied calligraphy.

Steve Jobs studied calligraphy, which ultimately made him a better businessman.

If it all sounds a touch pedantic for a company that builds smartphones, recall that Jobs credited part of the original Mac's success on his decision to study calligraphy at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

Born in 1929 in Maengsan in what was then the northern part of a unified Korea, he was exposed both to The Book of 1,000 Characters, a Chinese text for studying calligraphy, and reproductions of the works of Leonardo da Vinci.

Studying calligraphy and Japanese art, he was particularly influenced by the Japanese technique of using negative space.

Fascinated by the printing process, Alechinsky traveled to Paris to study engraving, then to Japan to study calligraphy in...

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It begins with two busy days in Shanghai before heading off to Yangshuo — a backpacker's haven set deep amid the forested hills of the Guangxi region — where you can practice calligraphy, study tai chi, and learn how to make local delicacies.

Nathan's studies of calligraphy and Zen writings have led him to the practice of trying to achieve, while working on his photography, a mind of no - mind (mu - shin no shin), a mind not preoccupied with emotions and thought, one that can, as freely as possible, simply create.

In the 1980s, he left the region to study traditional painting and calligraphy at the Shandong University of Art and Design and in the mid-1990s moved to Berlin, where he was asked to curate a show to promote cultural exchange between the two countries and then teach at the Berlin University of the Arts.

Being in a classroom environment allowed me to be around all kinds of diverse young artists with many different interests, and also to discover artists I had not studied before who were using writing — linguistic abstract gestural expressionism, such as calligraphy — in their contemporary works of art.

In 1955, she left for two years in Asia, studying classical calligraphy in Japan.

Interned with his family and other Japanese - Canadians in the BC interior during the Second World War, his art studies included the Winnipeg School of Art (1946 - 49), Hans Hofmann (1951), Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, England (1954), and Tokyo University of Fine Arts (1959 - 61), where he combined painting and calligraphy with travel in Japan.

Smith's con dent marking of line also derives from her graduate school study of calligraphy and her brief membership in a graf ti crew as a high school student.

As Corris perceptively puts it, «For Reinhardt, gesture grew out of cartooning, calligraphy, and a study of Asian art.»

Bearden also began studying Chinese ink painting and calligraphy.

His work was based on his study of Chinese calligraphy and brush painting, as well as Buddhism.

Keith Pratt (painting and calligraphy to 1949) is Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Durham.

Jade Mara Novarino is an artist who, for now, studies letterforms — the history and practice of calligraphy & stone engraving — , sends mail, makes paintings, video works, objects, and food.

This new approach followed an extended sojourn in the Far East where Tobey studied Zen calligraphy, and launched the «white writing» style that characterised his painting throughout the ensuing decades.

After training in traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy, and studying briefly at the University of British Columbia, Tseng moved to Paris in 1974 to attend the prestigious École Supérieure d'Arts Graphiques (the successor of the Académie Julian), where he began to study photography as art.

She spent six weeks studying Chinese calligraphy with Wang Dong Ling and Chinese landscape painting with Professor Yang at the Zhejiang Art Academy in Haungzhou, an experience which has inspired the unification of Eastern and Western ideologies in her abstract paintings.

Qin studied oil painting, ink painting and calligraphy at the Shandong University of Art and Design, according the the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and experimented with Western avant guard media.

This exhibition presented a vast array of Wu's output: cartoon drawings for newspapers, book cover designs, sketches and portrait paintings made during his five years of study in Paris; poetry, calligraphy, watercolour paintings and oils on canvas, mostly arranged chronologically and organized by media.

Resembling a sensual, otherworldly flower sprinkling drips of color in the infinite space, the work amalgamates the effects of some major formative experiences in Francis's career: the time the artist spent in Tokyo and his interest in Japanese calligraphy, his fascination with compositions resembling aerial views as a one - time pilot and his studies of botany as a Berkeley student.

Born in Hong Kong, having practiced Chinese calligraphy since the age of ten, she studied painting and drawing in her formative years and completed a BA degree in Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

In addition to contemporary Western influences, the interplay of negative space and bursts of color can be attributed to his study of Japanese calligraphy art during his frequent visits to his vacation home in Japan.

She later studied glass blowing, calligraphy, and lace making.

Tobey's mature painting style evolved after a visit to East Asia in 1934, during which he spent one month in a Zen monastery in Kyōto and studied Chinese calligraphy in Shanghai.

In 1984, she went to the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing, China, to study traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy.

He studied Japanese and Arabic calligraphy, and evolved his own style of word / image glyphs, supple as flames or tendrils of smoke.

Besides her training in brush painting and calligraphy under Chinese and Korean masters, she has also studied Western art in Germany, England and the United States, obtaining her BFA at Stony Brook University in New York and her MFA in interdisciplinary art at Goddard College.

Xieda has spent the exhibitions 20 years studying the history of Chinese written language, specifically focusing on Chinese calligraphy of the fourth century, a period in which the brush came to be used for writing as an alternative to carving characters into wood, bamboo, or stone.

Traditionally trained in Korean watercolour painting and calligraphy from the age of nine, Kim is among the few female heirs of the Dansaekhwa (Korean monochrome painting) movement, having studied under one of its masters, Park Seo - Bo, at Hong Ik University, Seoul.

Asawa also drew on her Japanese American background and her study of calligraphy with her emphasis on the interplay between line and the interstices around it.

It is a nod to antiquity, inspired by the artist's longtime study of traditional Chinese calligraphy.

Her time in Japan and study of calligraphy followed by a move to New York City influenced her seminal works from the 1960s and 1970s, which shifted dramatically from the purely gestural to more representational and illusionistic — albeit highly abstract.

At first glance his canvases resemble Chinese calligraphy, however when studied, resolve themselves into words understandable in English, giving the viewer access to the artist's lived experience within the East and the West.

He moved to Baghdad in 1961, where he learnt the various classical styles of calligraphy, and studied graphic design and fine arts.

Since 1990, she has been studying classical Chinese calligraphy.

She recently received the Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan.

Jigang employs the saturation of ink with full confidence, and in the process, belies the more studied precision generally associated with elder artists steeped in calligraphy.

While in Japan she studied classical and contemporary calligraphy and earned money by teaching English and tutoring actors.