Layer: Poetic lines in semicursive script, Zhang Ruitu (1570-1641), read in English

Co-curator and senior research fellow, Joseph Chang, reads Poetic lines in semicursive script, Zhang Ruitu (1570-1641) in Mandarin while the characters are highlighted on your screen.

Layer: Poetic lines in semicursive script, Zhang Ruitu (1570-1641), read in Mandarin

Learn more about the various script styles in Chinese calligraphy.

Decoding Chinese Calligraphy

Co-curator and senior research fellow, Joseph Chang, reads excerpts of poems from works in the "Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy" exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in Mandarin (with English subtitles).

Chinese Calligraphy and Poetry

Master Calligrapher Cai Xingyi writes the poem, "Ascending the Heron Tower," by Poet Wang Zhihuan (688-742).

Ascending the Heron Tower

Professor and master calligrapher, Cai Xingyi, writes an excerpt from the Thousand-Character Classic.

Calligrapher Cai Xingyi Writes the Thousand-Character Classic

Co-curator and senior research fellow, Joseph Chang, reads an excerpt from Self-composed Poems in semicursive script, Wen Zhengming (1470-1559) in Mandarin while the characters are highlighted on your screen.

Layer: Self-composed Poems in semicursive script, Wen Zhengming (1470-1559), read in Mandarin (excerpt)

Co-curator and senior research fellow, Joseph Chang, reads an excerpt from Poetic Lines, Yi Bingshou, (1754-1815) in Mandarin while the characters are highlighted on your screen.

Layer: Poetic Lines, Yi Bingshou, (1754-1815), read in Mandarin

Co-curator and senior research fellow, Joseph Chang, reads an excerpt from Eight Poems on Yellow Ridge, Xiong Tingbi (1596-1625) in Mandarin while the characters are highlighted on your screen.

Layer: Eight Poems on Yellow Ridge, Xiong Tingbi (1596-1625), read in Mandarin (excerpt)

Franz Kline

742. Leigh V Span, Franz Kline (American, 1910-1962), 1959-1960

Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy

Xu Bing

746. The Character of Characters, Xu Bing (b. 1955), 2012

Mark Tobey

744. Written Over the Plains, Mark Tobey, 1950

Layer: Franz Kline on Calligraphy

Brice Marden

740. Etchings to Rexroth, Brice Marden (American, b. 1938), 1986

738. Poetic lines in semicursive script, Zhang Ruitu (1570-1641)

736. Inscription on Shifan in standard script, Zhao Zhiqian (1829-1884)

734. Stele on Renovating a Confucian Temple and Its Ritual Implements in clerical script, He Shaoji (1799-1873), 1869

732. Master Cheng's Admonition on Seeing, Hearing, Words, and Deeds in clerical script, Deng Shiru (1739/1743-1805)

730. Poetic Lines in clerical script, Yi Bingshou (1754-1815)

728. Poem in "six-and-a-half-script," Zheng Xie (1693-1766)

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