The word
"calligraphic" describes something that is written or drawn with beautiful, artistic handwriting or lettering.
Full definition
Inseparable from the surface characteristics of the pieces is the presence of
calligraphic line which appears in varying degrees in all her work.
The influence of calligraphy first became apparent in the tangled brushwork of his cityscapes of the 1930s, and Tobey went on to develop a unique style consisting of a web or network of
calligraphic marks painted in white against a gray or coloured ground.
Other 20th century innovators of pen drawing include the American oriental artist Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976) who was famous for his «white writing» style of
calligraphic paintings; the German artist Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze)(1913 - 51), noted for his hair - thin graphic seismograms; and Agnes Martin (1912 - 2004), noted for her delicate hand - drawn minimalist grids.
I may start with thin washes of paint combined
with calligraphic lines, eventually building up to a thick, textured surface.
For another artist who is noted for a similar abstract
calligraphic style of painting, see: Cy Twombly (1928 - 2011).
El Seed's In the desert of language, calligraphy is the shade where I rest (2013)(Courtesy Ouahid Berrehouma / itinerrance GALLERY) Less obvious perhaps is work by Shirazeh Houshiary, with her dreamy works on paper defined by bold yellow symbols, or Shirin Neshat's C - prints of faces faintly covered
in calligraphic script.
Simultaneously there were surfacy, colorful abstractions, latter - decade paintings feature enamel paint — he was too poor for anything else — with black and white
calligraphic forms.
His expressive painting style and layers of ephemera and found objects combined with
calligraphic abstraction have a lyrical feel to them, are uniquely his.
Both Zhao Wuji and Zhu Dechun settled in Paris and developed into Abstract Expressionists of great distinction, although their abstractions, painted with free
calligraphic gestures in oils and acrylics, are still Chinese in their suggestions of landscapes.
Peace & Love @ Saatchi Gallery This top floor exhibition at Saatchi gallery is filled with beautifully lit
calligraphic works by Emirati royalty.
He often utilizes torn strips of painted canvas and paper, which are collaged side by side and are further worked with
calligraphic strokes.
Some scribes even became consultants, advising printers on how to design their pages to look like
calligraphic art.
Untitled (Poetry # 98 - 1) is an excellent example of Jinchi's early poetry paintings that incorporate
abstract calligraphic marks against backgrounds of even hue and contain subtly etched inscriptions.
Shortly after leaving Shanghai, Tobey began painting little fields of
white calligraphic marks on colored backgrounds.
The faces emerge from a gaseous swirl of
almost calligraphic lines, the heads melded together as the young man looks forward to the future and the bearded elder looks back to the past with occluded eyes.
Briefly: Kanter, though he does not fling paint like Pollock, uses
calligraphic black and white marks against the white, non-negative void; Sloane continues his Herculean examination of the darkest, densest fields of early de Kooning; Paulson, darker still, studies the lines between the figure, the landscape, and oblivion (Thompson) like disappearing tracks in the sand.
Constructed Communication is a combination of talk and technique where Kenji communicates as much through the serifs and
calligraphic flourishes of his letters as through the words his letters spell.
She translated nature employing
calligraphic brushstrokes, coalescing into images, but never losing the integrity of individual lines.
The legendary American artist
uses calligraphic gestures to depict scenes of New York, Greece, and in this example, Eagles Mere in Sullivan County.
The paintings in Frankenthaler's first solo exhibition, in 1951, at age twenty - two, synthesized the most radical aspects of the work of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Arshile Gorky, with their textured surfaces, washed with pale color and articulated
by calligraphic drawing.
Other painters who made contributions to the genre include the Europeans Karel Appel (1921 - 2006) and Asger Jorn (1914 - 73), the American
calligraphic painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976), the Tachist Sam Francis (1923 - 94), and the St Ives artist Patrick Heron (1920 - 99).
With this bundle you will receive 10 creative fonts ranging
from calligraphic, to handwritten, to brush script and more.
Frequently, he incorporates gestural
calligraphic elements that further extend his masterful exploitation of drawing in his compositions.
In a similar vein, Dan Flavin's Sailing Across Gardiner's Bay Near Lionhead Beach (lithograph, 1982) uses abstract
calligraphic impulses to picture the mast of a sailboat seemingly perched precariously atop the crest of a wave, conjuring a dramatic sense of frailty and motion through an effective use of negative space.
In Untitled, there is a rhythmic, almost
calligraphic quality to the way in which he has, in an almost ritualistic process and in the absence of any figurative motif, amassed these darting ink - marks on the surface.
In his quest to transcend the idea of easel painting, the pictorial space is enlarged across expanded canvas fields, on
which calligraphic signs reach maximum intensity through minimum resources, reflecting the artist's attempt to reach a square one of painting through simplicity and emptiness.
A 1960 review by Michel Strauss in the art magazine The Burlington — of an exhibition of Cervelli's work at London's Savage Gallery — described the artwork
as calligraphic transpositions of ancient propitiatory rites as presented by the peasants of the Abruzzi region.
Where an inky, consuming black expanse is the bass note of Stacked Black, an incandescent white expanse is at the center of Light Stir, surrounded by a rhythmic frame of
calligraphic red, blue and green strokes that pursue one another around the edge with quiet elegance.
In this, he is heir to both the conventions of geometric abstraction and Islamic and Japanese
calligraphic traditions.»
A key member of the Art Informel movement (the European variant of Abstract Expressionism), he was associated initially with the Lyrical Abstraction wing, before becoming
more calligraphic in style, not unlike the painting of Pierre Soulages (b. 1919).
Groundbreaking for its day, particularly as a woman ceramicist, Choy's work aesthetically merged the formalist influences of abstract expressionism with traditional
calligraphic brushwork of Asian potters.
Like me, my Mum has an old exercise book in which she writes, in her beautiful
calligraphic script, the recipes she finds which are too good to pass by.
In the late 1980s, influenced by his growing interest and travels in Thailand, his style took a dramatic turn towards gestural abstraction
incorporating calligraphic intricate lines on monochromatic panels — a nod to Asian characters and odes to nature.
Also included in her early work are shimmering little paintings of lines and dotted mark like
calligraphic details from pages of illuminated manuscripts, perhaps foreshadowing her direction of large grid works.
It was her shock that moved her to rapid action and she said the current «miasma» informed her improvisational language of roiling
calligraphic brush strokes and erasures.
Freeman's work can be seen alternately to quote the pyrotechnics of a Dizzy Gillespie solo, explore the tensile pressures of a Frank Gehry building, allude to ancient
calligraphic text, or capture the frenetic movement of city life.
Dynamic yellow - orange to deep red and the previously shown electric blues push Ko's forms into a sense of the cross-cultural as a they
recall calligraphic Asian characters or other ancient global motifs.
Marden's earlier series of paintings on marble, completed over a six - year period between 1981 and 1987, played a principal role in the transition from his early monochromatic paintings to the
later calligraphic work.
Wool covers a sheet of aluminum with
calligraphic loops and drips that recall Jackson Pollock, but rather than testifying to the artist's emotional immediacy, Wool's gesture is cold and distanced.
«Exaltations» features works from the «The Lost Exhibition,»
calligraphic canvases that Sadequain made in Paris in the late - 1960s and left behind when he departed France with the intention to return, but never did.
That's not to say the Pencil doesn't have a few tricks up its sleeve, however: It's fully pressure and tilt - sensitive, which means you can press harder against the screen to get a thicker line, or tilt your Pencil against the screen to virtually «shade» in a drawing or draw
calligraphic letters.
Christensen first gained renown for his spray loop paintings from the late 1960s, in which he used the spray gun to create repeating
calligraphic circles, producing shimmering allover surface effects.
Brice Marden has furthered the traditions of abstraction with his exploration of surface, material, and color, from his early monochromatic work to his more recent
calligraphic compositions.
Phrases with «calligraphic»