calligraphy

     

Calligraphy (from Greek κάλλος kallos "beauty" γραφή graphẽ "writing") is the art of writing (Mediavilla 1996: 17). A contemporary definition of calligraphic practice is "the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner" (Mediavilla 1996: 18). The story of writing is one of aesthetic evolution framed within the technical skills, transmission speed(s) and materials limitations of a person, time and place (Diringer 1968: 441). A style of writing is described as a script, hand or alphabet (Fraser & Kwiatkowski 2006; Johnston 1909: Plate 6).

Trivia about calligraphy

  • We protected this handwriting art, though we'd only just gotten our own written language
  • Greek for "beautiful writing", it's the art of beautiful handwriting
  • Used on watercolors, bookplates & documents, fraktur is a type of this stylized writing
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew) Appropriately, the name of this kind of pen is from the Greek for "beautiful writing"
  • This term for a type of penmanship comes from the Greek for "beautiful writing"
  • Taipei's National Palace Museum's collection of this visual art form includes "poem in seven-character verse"
  • Because Koranic knowledge was all-important, this became the supreme Muslim art form, as illustrated here

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