"Calligraphic forms" refers to the artistic and decorative way of writing or creating letters, symbols, or words. It focuses on creating beautiful, harmonious, and precise shapes using various strokes and flourishes.
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An array of vivid colors weaves across the canvas while
calligraphic forms of dark brown divide the repetitive composition.
In the main gallery, large openwork steel sculptures, based
on calligraphic forms, are set against banners embroidered with texts by Sufi masters; tall, calligraphy - covered porcelain pots fill an adjoining space.
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.
In 1945, she began her «Little Image» works, «intimate paintings, rich in surface texture, often loosely structured in a grid yet full of energy and improvisation,» and
featuring calligraphic forms.
Done during the»60s, this selection shows Lukin moving quickly and confidently, from rectangles which protrude along a seam, to rectangles to which another rectangle is attached, to a loopy
pink calligraphic form abutting a corner and hugging a wall, to what looks like a big blue tongue with red sides hanging down from the vertical rectangle to which it once belonged, to what looks like an odd model for a table in a upscale diner, but which is clearly non-functional.
The resultant images are gestural,
calligraphic forms whose textures and fractal - like patterns are reminiscent of the endlessly repeating structures in nature that exist on multiple scale levels from the sub-atomic to the universal; a reflection of the complex architecture of our universe.»
He employs a variety of marks, ranging from small drips dispersed across the surface, to broad horizontal and diagonal lines that appear to
reference calligraphic forms.
Using paint and ink, Isaac Tin Wei Lin (b. 1976)
overlays calligraphic forms on a variety of materials including enlarged family photographs, vinyl tarps, rain ponchos, shirts, walls, panels, and found paper.
During the late 1980s Brice Marden, who held a spiritual / emotional view of abstraction, began a more multi-colored and
calligraphic form of abstract painting.
The calligraphic forms expand and gain visual weight, often encircling sinuous figures who stare at the viewer with piercing eyes.
We see him rendering
the calligraphic form that he understands only visually (and not as a system of written communication), into a system of painterly marks.»
A logo gone wild, this giant, physical, sleek, animated,
calligraphic form is contained only by the physical space in which it exists.
The unique style that defines JonOne's work, between Graffiti and Abstract Expressionism, derives from the combination of three fundamental elements:
the calligraphic forms, the mastering of colour and the complex painting texture.
Mr. Spinazzola has created this unique 3 dimensional work using the Chinese symbols for the word rabbit and added another life - like rabbit sculpture leaping on top of
the calligraphic form.
In this way, by substituting a pouring method in place of the brush, Lee preserves but employs an innovative approach to
the calligraphic form and spirit of line.
Otaybi's early work was very much immersed in the ideas of the «old» Khartoum School and, although his painterly language has developed, the use of architectural and decorative motifs and
calligraphic forms can still be seen in these recent paintings.