Su Demao at Calligraphy Exchange Gathering 苏德茂：书画交流雅集现场挥毫

Calligrapher Su Demao gave a talk at the 77th monthly Calligraphy & Painting Exchange Gathering organised by the Teochew Poit Ip Huay Kuan on 26 June 2010. The talk is on the importance of practising Chinese calligraphy by copying the model calligraphic works of the ancient calligraphers. In fact, he advocated that this is the only way to master the calligraphic skills.

He then touched on how to study and analyse accurately the model calligraphic works so that one can copy accurately the spirit and skills of the works. This website will publish the transcription from his talk once it is ready.

After the talk, calligrapher Su demonstrated on the spot the writing of calligraphy in front of about 70 attendees of the talk.

The gathering was also attended by Indian artist Rajib Bhattacharjee who was in Singapore from 23 to 29 June to conduct a study known as Project Singapore. His interest is in how the community as a whole and the urban space are affected by aggressive urbanisation. He is doing a project on Singapore as it is the most urbanised country in this part of the world. He is fascinated by the Chinese calligraphy as a unique art of lines and hopes to get some inspirations from it in his reflections of the character of the changing urban space.

Here are some photos taken during the exchange gathering.

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书法家苏德茂老师于6月26日在潮州八邑会馆主办的第77次书画交流雅集讲座会中谈临摹古代法帖对学习书法的重要性。其实，苏老师认为临帖时获得技巧的唯一方法。

苏老师也谈到如何准确地学习与分析古人优秀作品，这样我们临帖时才能学到其精神与技巧。本网站会把苏老师的讲稿整理后发表，敬请留意。

座谈后，苏老师也为大约70名座谈会的出席者当场挥毫。

来自印度的艺术家拉吉也出席了这次的交流雅集。拉吉于6月23日至29日访问新加坡，进行有关‘新加坡项目’的研究。拉吉的兴趣在于强力城市化对整个社区与城市空间所带来的影响。他有兴趣对新加坡进行研究时因为新加坡是本地区最城市化的国家。他被华人书法这门独特的线条艺术所吸引，希望从中可以获得一些灵感来反映他对不断变化城市空间的感想。

这里是交流雅集当日的一些图片。

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