Portland Art Museum's current exhibition, Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art showcases work spanning a millennium with pieces dating as far back as 750 AD to the most recent from 1961. The collection ...

Arts Walk cover artist Chiyo Sanada, who began studying calligraphy at age 7 in her hometown of Hiroshima, Japan, puts her whole body into her work. Courtesy of Chiyo Sanada Arts Walk poster artist ...

Widely considered Korea’s most prominent calligrapher, Jung Do-Jun will be featured in the upcoming “Paths of Ink” exhibition at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center. Courtesy photo A new “Paths of Ink” ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — When Japanese calligraphy artist Chiyo Sanada paints, there's more going onto the canvas than ink. She expresses herself when she creates — each brush stroke is a feeling. "You can ...

A Japanese-style pavilion designed and built by Thom Ross greets visitors to the Portland Art Museum' s " Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art" exhibit. (Amy Wang/Staff) Maribeth Graybill went to extra ...

Calligraphy is an art defined by movement and rhythm, which also contains the language of Japanese literature and philosophy, explain the authors of this lavishly illustrated volume.""It is a script ...

Most of us think of calligraphy as an elegant form of writing, grand for wedding invitations and formal announcements, but just writing. “Calligraphic Abstraction,” at the Seattle Asian Art Museum ...

Celebrated artist Toko Shinoda, who combined Abstract Expressionism with the traditions of Japanese calligraphy, has died at the age of 107. She passed away from natural causes at a Tokyo hospital on ...

THE magnificent exhibition of classical Japanese painting and sculpture which toured the United States two years ago amazed the American museum public with its revelation of a tradition comparable in ...