Calligraphy Essay

buildings like the Alhambra, one can see that the Nasrid artists embellished the building in three specific ways: the carving of stylized foliage; the use of tiles to form elaborate geometric figures in primary colors, and the repetitive use of Arabic calligraphy. These three common characteristics are not only seen in the Alhambra but on and within many masques, palaces, and Islamic architecture as a whole. As we have…

Collection, Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters, Miracle Mile, Metropolis II, and Agnes Martin exhibitions. In the Alternative Dreams: 17th Century Chinese Painting for the Tsao Family Collection exhibit, I learned about Chinese art. Chinese calligraphy…

the speech Jobs tells us about how he dropped out of college but stayed around as a drop-in. I found that interesting because before, I didn’t think you could take other classes you weren’t assigned to, but as Jobs states in his speech, he took a calligraphy class because he found the art of typography in the…

in social and cultural entities which, whether themselves Muslim or not, have been strongly influenced by the modes of life and thought characteristic of Islam. It was used in the medieval Islamic world in designing. Ink was also used in Arabic Calligraphy. In this paper, I will state the meaning of the ink, the types of ink, origin as well as the uses of the Islamic ink. I will also state some observations from some Islamic materials and how ink was used in decorating them. The Islamic ink is…

life event dictated through poetry. Calligraphy, was also an extremely important aspect of Heian court, with calligraphy being considered a demonstration of a person’s morality. As seen in third chapter of the Tales of Genji, Genji falls madly in love with a lowly aristocratic woman due to her beautiful calligraphy resulting in him abandoning social and cultural principles in his pursuit of her as well as the abandonment of his mistress, Rokujo. Like calligraphy, music and dance were also…

before. Shah Tahmasp was one of the important Shahs and he designed carpets himself. Riza-i Abbasi was a popular painter and a good teacher, whose most prominent pupil was Muin. There was a wide variety of types of art including calligraphy, ceramics,and textiles. Calligraphy has two different types, Kufic and cursive. Cursive was used in everyday writing and Kufic Script was used in official and religious writing only. Kufic writing was very artistic and purposeful while cursive was…

Art can be represented in many ways and is differently approached by different artists. One way to define art is by explaining the three factors that are described by Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy, a Russian writer and philosopher, defined art by three characteristics: individuality, clearness, and sincerity. He refers to individuality as the uniqueness of any work of art. The activity of art is an act where the performer portrays specific emotions that connect with the listener or the person being aimed…

The social and political structure of an era greatly influences the arts and cultural products of the time. The relationship a government has with the governed, its interactions with neighboring states and people, as well as the social and economic values of the time, shapes and molds the way the people in that area artistically express themselves. This holds true for the artistic products of ancient Japan, specifically from the Kofun period to the end of the Muromachi period, spanning from…

picture myself as an American woman for this paper I will flip it. Shirin Neshat’s photography series “Women of Allah” is very simplistic but very strong. They are black and white with Islamic women who are covered, tattooed that happens to be calligraphy and they are also holding firearms. For the American women it would be black and white as well for the reason that we only view color in this country. The women would be women of all races since America is a melting pot of races. The setting…

On the site, Lot #52 is a “Kashan Lustre Tazza” which displays the same depiction of an East Asian women surrounded by vegetal themes and earthy tones (“A Kashan Lustre Tazza”). The two bowls also share a simplistic pattern of vines and loose calligraphy that obviously originated from the same region. After reading the item description and seeing that the bowl was of similar size, similar material, and of Islamic origin I decided the two must be closely related. Following this decision I looked…