Just as writing can become calligraphy when it’s creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art.
~H.E. Davey
I have featured the beautiful art of calligraphy before. Today, we have calligraphy on various surfaces and from all angles:
Water Calligraphy, Jingshan Park, China
photo by Brian Beggerly
Calligraphy: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes
by kateinoregon
At the Afsarwala Mosque within the Humayun's Tomb Complex
photo by Sourav Das
Calligraphy Brushes
photo by Kari
Calligraphy legos, 博 bó
photo by Empress of Blandings
Treasure of the Aga Khan
photo by Maxpax
Calligraphy
photo by 5u5
Lost
photo by Jessica Lucia
Turkish Islamic Calligraphy Art
photo from Ottoman Calligraphy
Calligraphy is the art to put the brush on paper properly and then accurately remove it.
~saying from the International Exhibition of Calligraphy site
Lovely!
ReplyDeleteThese are wonderful, Tabatha.
ReplyDeleteJust this week I ran across a new word: calligraffiti, which is "graffiti that uses or is inspired by calligraphic letterforms and techniques."
BBC News has an interesting article on a practitioner of this form:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23586259