The globally loved artist has a background in Chinese
calligraphy as well as discernible dedication to detail.
She was born and grew up in Shanghai where she practiced Chinese
calligraphy as a young girl.
His fondness for the written word permeates his work, which frequently includes Arabic script, and can be traced to his promise in
calligraphy as a child.
This smart and accessible show suggests a third option: appreciating
calligraphy as a social art, and even an early social network.
Huang Zhiyang, who was instructed in Chinese
calligraphy as a child, is recognized for his large - scale oil paintings, ink washes on silk, and drawings on paper.
However, it also prompts the viewers to re-think the definition of
calligraphy as they know it, and to acknowledge its far - reaching conceptual possibilities and the impactful role that it has to play in contemporary artistic practice.
With their thick impasto and shiny reflective surface, the tar creates a surface that visibly reflects the movement of the hand across the canvas, linking these works to Japanese
calligraphy as well as to a history of gestural abstraction.
Also on show are silkscreens by influential artist and writer Kamal Boullata, which depict Islamic
calligraphy as colourful patterns.
Drawing on Arabic semiotics and dwelling on
calligraphy as a means of interpretive transcendence, Koraïchi's work utilises letters and signage to evoke figurative imagery and present universal messages to a global audience.
This is one reason Steve Jobs often cited his college course in
calligraphy as an influence.
Not exact matches
As he explained to a crowd of intellectuals at a event hosted by Zach Todd Liberman and Saumitra Thakur in New York Thursday night, each brilliant person combined a love of the sciences with a love of the arts — Einstein with his violin; Jobs with his
calligraphy; Franklin with his kite.
As the above video clearly shows, the man is on point when it comes to
calligraphy, and has millions following his daily calligraphic updates on Instagram and Facebook.
Japanese connoisseurs delight in the rhythmic strokes of
calligraphy, seeing them
as manifestations of the vital processes of natural life.
Erm, the «word» you read
as «evil» is a
calligraphy of the phrase «God is All - glorious» rendered in the shape of a ship.
On other occasions the dome was transformed into a giant beanie cap with propeller (1996), banded with a giant ring engraved with Elvish
calligraphy from the opening of the Lord of the Rings movie (2001), and has served
as pedestal for a full - scale model of Kitty Hawk, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers» flight (2003).
Key Looks: There's a fair amount of influence from Chinese traditions in these looks such
as the
calligraphy in slide # 1 and # 3 and also a detailed embroidery on the velour in slide # 15.
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Seattle, WA About Blog My art practice is rooted in the traditions of contemplative art, influenced greatly by my years
as a student of Asian
calligraphy and my ongoing design career
as a calligrapher and letterform artist.
This harsh:» [Not paying for games] is the same
as not paying your dinner tab or shoplifting,» she blogs during a break from writing «Chrono Trigger» in Japanese
calligraphy.
In Peter Greenaway's 1996 oddity, Vivian Wu stars
as a young Japanese woman who likes sex and
calligraphy.
As a kid the New York - based actor, now 49, learned
calligraphy from his mother.
Twombly is viewed
as an famous abstract American
calligraphy - painter.
Masteringthe writing of characters has the additionalbenefit of opening a window on the world ofChinese
calligraphy, regarded
as one of thehighest art forms, traditional or modern.
During my stay in Iwate I participated in a traditional tea ceremony, practiced Zen meditation, tried my hand at origami and
calligraphy, and came in third in a wanko soba noodle eating competition the object of which was to eat
as many plates of buckwheat noodles in 30 minutes
as you can.
Inside, the limited edition RC sports orange stitching on the seats, dash, and doors,
as well
as an exclusive wood - trimmed steering wheel featuring distinctive shades of black created by a Japanese
calligraphy shop.
Koichi Suga, chief designer for the LS, talks about the inspiration for some of the cabin elements, such
as Andon lamps for illumination, Kiriko glass on the door panels, and the shape of a
calligraphy brush for the dashboard woodwork.
I walked 5 miles to the next town
as a form of walking meditation, I attended my first
calligraphy class (which was awesome!)
On focus will be the iPad's capability to enable its users to pick up new skills such
as calligraphy, or a new language via suitably designed apps.
On her downtime, she enjoys a good book and teaching herself new tricks, such
as crocheting and
calligraphy.
It includes information on iconic sights such
as the Terracotta Warriors
as well
as where you can enjoy peaceful pursuits such
as learning Chinese
calligraphy or simply eating your way through a whole district.
A classic style of
calligraphy can apparently work
as sustainable graffiti,
as the artist Faust is «tagging» random cars in the slushy season with the oldest tool in the book — a finger.
Nathan's studies of
calligraphy and Zen writings have led him to the practice of trying to achieve, while working on his photography, a mind of no - mind (mu - shin no shin), a mind not preoccupied with emotions and thought, one that can,
as freely
as possible, simply create.
The artist known
as Faust is «tagging» random cars, heftily tucked beneath the snow, with an old - school style of
calligraphy.
She can also draw on
calligraphy to move between color and works on paper in black and white,
as if taking stock of her own strengths — and
as a reminder of how painting and drawing can still feed one another.
Inspired by urban surroundings of the big city, a landscape of his home in rural Pennsylvania, and Japanese
calligraphy, the artist transfused these motifs into the recognizable large black - and - white paintings which helped establishment of Gestural Abstraction
as an important segment within Abstract Expressionism.
By the 1970s Poons created thick - skinned, cracked and heavy paintings referred to
as Elephant Skin paintings; while Christensen sprayed loops, colored webs of lines and
calligraphy, across multi-colored fields of delicate grounds; Ronnie Landfield's stained band paintings are reflections of both Chinese landscape painting and the Color Field idiom, and John Seery's stained painting
as exemplified by East, 1973, from the National Gallery of Australia.
In the early fifties,
as he was embarking on a major phase of abstract painting, Guston explored the power of simple lines in drawings reminiscent of exercises in
calligraphy.
This work can be interpreted in the simplest, most direct manner —
as a stereotyped image of China's food culture and painting traditions, but at the same time, its multiple references to various Chinese social and historical backgrounds make interpretation much more difficult: the use of objects to express morality in Chinese landscaping, satirical poetry mocking ostentatious refinement, and the imitation of handwritten menus to capture a scene of civil life... Viewers unfamiliar with the specific context can easily find themselves lost in the smokescreen of mysterious Oriental poetic
calligraphy and bonsai art.
A white postmodernist whose collaborations with Wade Guyton
as Guyton / Walker seemed obsessed with Ketel One vodka ads — their Fraktur
calligraphy no doubt a sign of the nexus between capitalism, Fascism, and strong drink — he parodies Modernism, right along with the culture of consumption, race in America, and the mass media that filter all of these.
Smith weaves Modernist notions of beauty through postmodern, contextual labyrinths in a way that only lavish humanistic references touched by fiberculture, such
as calligraphy and graffiti, could move.
His father worked at the National Palace Museum
as a scholar and calligrapher, introducing the young Che to the art of
calligraphy, an art which would later directly influence his paintings.
Being in a classroom environment allowed me to be around all kinds of diverse young artists with many different interests, and also to discover artists I had not studied before who were using writing — linguistic abstract gestural expressionism, such
as calligraphy — in their contemporary works of art.
Nares simulates in oil a gigantic loose brushstroke,
as if he hopes to recover the loving
calligraphy that Robert Rauschenberg had erased, Cy Twombly or Sol LeWitt had exorcised, Gerhard Richter had covered up with a squeegee, and Roy Lichtenstein had once parodied on the same scale.
A Pollock biographer wrote:»... [Tobey's] dense web of white strokes,
as elegant
as Oriental
calligraphy, impressed Jackson so much that in a letter to Louis Bunce he described Tobey, a West Coast artist,
as an «exception'to the rule that New York was «the only real place in America where painting (in the real sense) can come thru.»
Lin's bold and colorful markmaking with logographic and alphabetic elements is reminiscent of hieroglyphs,
as well
as musical scores, Chinese characters and
calligraphy.
Smith's con dent marking of line also derives from her graduate school study of
calligraphy and her brief membership in a graf ti crew
as a high school student.
The curves and arabesques of the
calligraphy eclipse the meaning of the words,
as if the message is disappearing into the engine of the machine.
And Bolduc always created
as he travelled, producing countless works on paper that show the influence of Persian miniatures, Central Asian carpets, Chinese
calligraphy, and North African design.
As Corris perceptively puts it, «For Reinhardt, gesture grew out of cartooning,
calligraphy, and a study of Asian art.»
Transcending and merging their cultures» printmaking traditions, these artists too moved «beyond East» and «beyond West, «Japanese pictorial traditions, including expressive sumi - e brush painting and Zen
calligraphy, the use of un-sized supports, and ukiyo - e printing, inspired artists such
as Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, and Robert Motherwell and influenced their development
as Abstract Expressionists, American ceramists Gertrud and Otto Natzler, Glenn Nelson, and William Wyman looked to Zen - inspired ceramics.