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DTSTAMP:20141201T163941Z
DTSTART:20141203T020000Z
DTEND:20141203T153000Z
SUMMARY:Live Chinese Art Demonstration
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DESCRIPTION:Zheng Shenglong at Manchester Art Gallery\n\nIn Conversation 
 with KOSTYA NOVOSELOV\, chaired by Karen Wang\n\nArt meets Science – Exp
 lore the common ground of art and science by witnessing this extraordina
 ry demonstration of Chinese brush painting and challenging questions tha
 t blur the line between the visual and the scientific. \nThe Confucius I
 nstitute at The University of Manchester is proud to present Zheng Sheng
 long\, calligrapher and art professor at Xiamen University in China\, wh
 o will give a live brush painting demonstration\, followed by a Q&A sess
 ion with the director of the Confucius institute Karen Wang and Nobel La
 ureate Kostya Novoselow to compare the art of Chinese calligraphy to Sci
 ence\, as both disciplines requiring repetitive practice and control of 
 energy. \nZheng paints on rice paper\, with special brushes made from th
 e hair of wolves and goats. His paintings\, often featuring plants\, tre
 es and flowers also include messages in calligraphy summing up the momen
 t of the painting.\n
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Lecture Room\, Manchester Art Gallery
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