Learning about and practicing Chinese calligraphy is a soothing way to take your mind off coronavirus
Stuck inside to fight a pandemic, it’s hard to keep our thoughts from circling back to the virus. Never enlightening; always unsettling. An effective and soothing countermeasure is to engage our minds with complex and beautiful art forms—found aplenty in Asian art.
Among these, the most revered throughout East Asia is Chinese calligraphy. Like Robert Motherwell and Franz Kiline, we can and do respond to the abstract qualities of a master’s brushstrokes. But whether the characters they form cascade like rivulets, nestle into grids, or explode joyfully, they are words, written by people who had internalized rules, conventions...
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