THE ART OF HANDWRITING
During the show a master of handwriting will give the opportunity to the visitors to approach and appreciate the millenary old art of calligraphy.
Indeed for the Chinese people calligraphy is written painting and painted writing.
The art of calligraphy is much more than its literal meaning and follows aesthetic rules: the artist is first of all a handwriter who gives continuity to the old art of writing; painting is not a self-contained art but is art of the brush and therefore comes second to calligraphy.
The hand movements are closely connected to the conscious idea of the repetition of a stated symbol, the traditional instruments of this art are the brush and the china ink.
Black china ink, rice paper and fine brushes are still today the tools of chinese handwriters and painters.
And then neither handwriting nor painting is completed without the artist seal, the traditional chinese signature: on both paintings or documents the seal, whose history dates back to the 2nd century BC, is essential.