Liza Darby and Nara calligrapher UCBerkeley
This show is in Lower Manhattan in a gallery for the week! Look at Liza Dalby's website for details.
What a marvelous event! Liza Darby, who lives in East Bay, is best known as a novelist, (go to Liza Dalby.com and the author of the wonderful book on Kimono), has a Phd from Stanford; she introduced us to Yoko Nishina the calligrapher with whom she collaborates. She creates the scrolls and Yoko, the artwork. They work with another artist, who lives in Kyoto, and did the painting backdrop to some of the calligraphy.
A marvel! Reminded me of how much I learned about calligraphy in Hangzhou as the calligraphy institute was located there in the Song dynasty along with some of the great calligraphers. We are reminded that great calligraphers and poets materialized, because they were out of the government and developed these pursuits and became a "school" and significant in China's history. I remember my own calligraphy lessons and how when I went to enter the Moss Temple in Kyoto, if I had not known calligraphy, I would never have had a visit. We had to spend one hour copying a sutra to secure a tour...(this was one of the restrictions, as the garden had become so popular; it is probably the most memorable garden). It helped me a little in China, of course, but I was deterred by the history of learning each character as each has a complicated history which can be more fascinating than its functional meaning.
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What a marvelous event! Liza Darby, who lives in East Bay, is best known as a novelist, (go to Liza Dalby.com and the author of the wonderful book on Kimono), has a Phd from Stanford; she introduced us to Yoko Nishina the calligrapher with whom she collaborates. She creates the scrolls and Yoko, the artwork. They work with another artist, who lives in Kyoto, and did the painting backdrop to some of the calligraphy.
A marvel! Reminded me of how much I learned about calligraphy in Hangzhou as the calligraphy institute was located there in the Song dynasty along with some of the great calligraphers. We are reminded that great calligraphers and poets materialized, because they were out of the government and developed these pursuits and became a "school" and significant in China's history. I remember my own calligraphy lessons and how when I went to enter the Moss Temple in Kyoto, if I had not known calligraphy, I would never have had a visit. We had to spend one hour copying a sutra to secure a tour...(this was one of the restrictions, as the garden had become so popular; it is probably the most memorable garden). It helped me a little in China, of course, but I was deterred by the history of learning each character as each has a complicated history which can be more fascinating than its functional meaning.
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| My favorite. As someone remarked, reminds one of Miro |
The calligrapher Yoko Nishima her craft
The calligrapher in action
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| Sarah Brayer's Celestial Painting at the AAM; she does the background and foreground painting accompanying the calligraphy (see previous blog entry about this exhibition) |
The calligrapher, the department chair, and Liza Dalby at UCB
Example of the child like script
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