The French then spread the Latin alphabet while training the civil servants who helped them govern Indochina, explained Khanh-Minh Bui, a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley ...

At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, ... The French then spread the Latin alphabet while training the civil servants who helped them govern Indochina, said Khanh-Minh Bui, a doctoral student at the ...

At the start of my first lesson in Chinese calligraphy, my teacher told me to write my name. After I scrawled it out, he said, plainly: “Now I will teach you how to write your name.

As tension with North Korea continues, the French-Tunisian artist known as eL Seed has unveiled artwork calling for unity at the demilitarized zone dividing the Korean Peninsula. Installation of ...

“20 years ago, I met a Vietnamese French woman,” he told Việt Nam News. “I visited her house and learned that her culture is very different.” Jean said he has learned the Vietnamese language for seven ...

Normally in calligraphy, you don’t use rulers, but I wanted to do a kind of gestural geometry,” explains L’Atlas aka Jules Dedet Granel about his process.

TEHRAN, Mar. 01 (MNA) – Calligraphy master Gholamhossein Amirkhani has been awarded by French embassy in Tehran the highest order of the country Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur.

French calligrapher Claude Mediavilla in her monumental work, From Calligraphy to Abstract Painting, describes it as “the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious, and skilful ...

Grill said he hoped that by displaying his calligraphy in Vietnam January 15-26 he would be able to help promote Vietnamese culture to foreign tourists. On Monday morning, a French tourist visiting ...

HANOI -- At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks of Vietnam's unique modern script, in part a ...

Calligraphy in Quoc Ngu offers more artistic freedom “in terms of colour, shape, idea” than that using characters, he believes. “Culture is not the property of one country, it’s an exchange between ...