Asian Art Museum - Chinese Calligraphy Exhibit

The cost for this exhibit is $12, $8 for Seniors & Students, and free for first three RSVPS. Please inform me if you have a membership that allows additional free entries.

Calligraphy is as old as writing - in many languages there is a formalized art to it. But in China, the art of writing has a special place in art and culture. It represents a discipline, art, and the development of one's character. From an early age, children are given lessons in writing with brush and ink, the skill required is not simple. As with the Samurai arts of poetry, tea ceremony, and painting, mastering the art of calligraphy has also been seen as a reflection of personal character. Along with other activities such as tai chi, calligraphy is a popular activity of everyday life. In the morning, it is a pastime to do calligraphy on sidewalks in water. It has the further representation of the evanescence of life.

This exhibit goes back 600 years and includes the work of a contemporary Chinese artist (Xu Bing) commissioned specifically for the exhibit.

We will have lunch at the Museum cafe, an affordable authentic Asian food vendor before viewing the Calligraphy exhibit. After that, we will view the Indonesian Javan Batik exhibit, the practice of patterning cloth with hot wax, reflecting the cultures and religions of Java.

The total time spent on the exhibits will be two hours.

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