Calligraphy

Elbert Hubbard once said “Art is not a thing; it is a way.” Art is all around us; from the floor we walk on, to the color of the walls around us, to the music we listen to on the radio. Many kids have taken on a lot of different forms that did not exist many years ago. Today, we fill our world with street art not exactly thought about to be art like mimes, circus acts, puppetry, mask theater, vaudeville, and storytelling through movement (Rapp 4). Art is an essential part of our society…

fashioned paper which is used forty to fifty years ago and now it is no longer useable. When Mayors and aldermen sent her a letter to Miss Emily for taxes, Miss Emily replied the letter “in a reply note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded ink (Faulkner, page#391)”. It shows Miss Emily still living in the past. She doesn’t know archaic paper has no value in modern age. Another example of Emily lives in the past is refusing taxes. During that time, every house…

Historical introduction The Palace, known as Alhambra, is located on al-Sabika, next to the river Darro and in front of Albaicin and of the Alcazaba in Granada, Spain. The Palace was called Alhambra due to its rose-colored walls. The Alhambra has a view over the city and the meadow (la Vega). Considering this element we can tell that other buildings were already present before the arrival of Muslims. The compound is bordered by ramparts and with an irregular shape. The Alhambra is limited due…

4. The Outdoor Leisure Participants (Demand) 4.1. The Consumer Economic analysis of the demand for a commodity normally takes as its starting point the relationship between the quantity demand, the price of the commodity and the income of the consumers. For outdoor leisure commodities, however, the resources available to the consumer are wider than simply his or her income. To enjoy leisure commodities consumers need time, and for some consumers the lack of availability of time is a bigger…

Over, the course of this class we have watched how Chinese art has changed throughout history. We first witnessed the bronze ritual vessels of the Shang and Zhou Dynasty. Then we examined the different Hu’s of the Han Dynasty. We also watched the progression of Buddhist sculptures in the 3rd and 4th century. With the course ending we see the collapse of the Tang Dynasty in the 10th century, and the emergence of Chinese Landscape painting. The past couple weeks, we were introduced to a variety of…

DKNY KNY is a New York-based fashion house specializing in fashion goods for men and women founded in 1984 by Donna Karan. DKNY sells a more affordable fast fashion line diffusion clothe line and many labels and brands have branched off of the original DKNY label including DKNY Jeans, DKNY Active, DKNY Underwear, DKNY Juniors, DKNY Kids, DKNY Pure. DKNY Men, launched in 1992, consists of tailored suits, dress wear, formalwear, casual wear, sportswear, and shoes. The Donna Karan Beauty collection…

The Heian period, often called Japan’s Golden Age, was a time when the aristocrats led a great flourishing of Japanese culture. They created advancements in architecture, had powerful families to keep the peace intact, conducted an efficient social system, made entertainment more updated, used new beauty and fashion styles, art became very important, and literature became greatly prized. The aristocrats created a spectacular culture that still lives on to this day. Heian-kyo, the new capital…

Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Lacking the help and direction from family, he dropped out of college after just six months. He then spent the next year and a half attending creative classes at the college. Jobs later re-attended one course of calligraphy and developed his love for typography. A few years later in 1974 Jobs took a position as a video game designer at Atari. A few months later he left the company to find his “spiritual enlightenment” in India. Two years later in 1976, when…

known to be an important American realist painter. Eakins was born in 1844 and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During his childhood he learned many technical skills from watching his own father at work. His father was a writing master and calligraphy teacher. Eakins was able to pick up on skills like precision and perspective. Eakins had always enjoyed sports and art, and he too was an athletic child. He liked rowing, ice skating, swimming, wrestling, sailing, and gymnastics, and at some…

With the invention of the moveable type the creation of “cheaper” books changed the course of history. Many artisans went into the print making business and for better or worse we still have those means fonts and works to look back upon and gaze in awe in how they created such marvelous pieces. But none are looked upon with as much wonder and amazement then those of John Baskerville. Everything that Baskerville made screamed high quality from the type, to the design of the book, to even the…