Calligraphy The Art of Beautiful Writing
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Calligraphy The Art of Beautiful Writing
Calligraphy The Art of Beautiful Writing
Since the beginning of civilization writing styles have always evolved with evolved with the tools and materials of the age. From prehistoric cave paintings when stones and sticks were used to clay tablets, reed pens on papyrus, quill pens on parchment to metal pens and ball points pens used today. Close at hand look at our indigenous drawings in Australia and the Maori cave drawings in New Zealand.
As a much younger person, we produced Maori Rock Drawings. Producing them on small copper circles, as copper enamel ash trays, very successfully.
Edward Johnston is acknowledged (1872–1944) for reviving the art of Calligraphy in Britain. A tremendous number of his pupils went onto teach and today’s Calligraphers owe their rise to fame to Johnston.
In this century of 2000 calligraphy is increasingly being used in advertising and graphic design. Creative new ideas using decorative and innovative surfaces, which include fabrics, ceramics, glass and even three dimensional design.
With a greater awareness of the modern world around us, the modern Calligrapher with unrestrictive use of their personal experience, will help to enrich, inspire and nurture their work. Maybe this hub will allow more people to use it as a springboard, to embrace design and creativity and extend the boundaries of their experience and take it to new heights and flights of discovery.
Calligraphy (from Greek κάλλος kallos "beauty" + γραφή graphẽ "writing") is the art of beautiful writing. A contemporary definition of calligraphic practice is "the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner" 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
Calligraphy ranges from functional hand lettered inscriptions and designs to fine art pieces where the abstract expression of the handwritten mark may or may not supersede the legibility of the letters.
Classical calligraphy differs from typography and non-classical hand-lettering, though a calligrapher may create all of these; characters are historically disciplined yet fluid and spontaneous, improvised at the moment of writing.
Many calligraphers are as happy with "jazz" as "classical" for musical analogy and represents differing emphasis between artists.
Calligraphy continues to flourish in the forms of wedding and event invitations, font design/ typography, original hand-lettered logo design, religious art, various announcements/ graphic design/ commissioned calligraphic art, cut stone inscriptions, memorial documents, props and moving images for film and television, testimonials, birth and death certificates/maps, and other works involving writing
The word calligraphy literally means beautiful writing. Before the invention of the printing press some 500 years ago, it was the way books were made. Each copy was handwritten out by a scribe working in a scriptorium. The hand writing was done with quill and ink onto materials like vellum or parchment
Today, there are three main types or styles of calligraphy: (1) Western or Roman, (2) Arabic, and (3) Chinese or Oriental. This project focuses mainly on Western calligraphy with a glimpse at the other two styles.
Calligraphy (from Greek κάλλος kallos "beauty" + γραφή graphẽ "writing") is the art of beautiful writing. Calligraphy is fun. Calligraphy is an art. Calligraphy is a hobby.
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What an accomplished person you are turning out to be
Skilled and knowledgeable in many areas
May I wish you a happy Christmas and the best New Year you have ever had
I would like to have a good calligraphy but I am a terrible and my English it bad lol great hub
Thank you
Great HUB MrM !!!
regards Zsuzsy
This kind of stuff is fascinating. I spent a little time in high school trying to learn calligraphy, with limited results. Thank you for you breadth of knowledge and subject matter.
As usual....a superb hub Mr. Marmalade! Thanks again.
My head is swelling with praise. Stop it I like them all, please send more thank you
Effective writing is indeed an art.Thanks for sharing the great info.Do you speak Greek?I really like the last part of it.
Great hub Mr M. As a hobby I did screen printing on T Shirts for Clubs etc and it was my printing that let me down. I would love to have had this article then.
In the UK, the celebrated veteran jazz trumpeter and broadcaster Humphrey Lyttleton spends a lot of his spare time travelling around primary schools to promote calligraphy to the youngsters. It's a little known but wonderful part of his life's work.
There is nothing to stop you going back after All:-
Aristotle did say. "We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then is not an Act but a Habit."
I am sure he had you in mind when he penned those magnificent words.
If he did not, I do. I have several books on the subject at
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Abhinaya, No is the short answer, I can only just manage Australian and some times that is badly.
Thank you All
Paraglider: I was going to be a doctor once no money and no brains put a stop to that. Anyway I managed to teach myself some of their trade craft. Bad handwriting.
Excellent hub, MrMarmalade! This hub reminded me that I DO have calligraphy pens around here somewhere! I can dig them out now in time to make some cards for xmas!
Thx for the article
See I have come in useful today
Thank you
Wow!, presented well, which inturn a replay for all works done earlier for love cards.
Thank you. What goes around comes around
Great Hub, I bought a Calligraphy book recently, don't have time to learn more, but would love to write letters like that. I have seen my friends write beautifully for special occassions.
Great article..I used to love calligraphy when i was younger and this hub has brought back so many good memories:)
It is wonderful when we see art in any form and our memories can react to that art in another time
Thank you both
Thanks for reminding me on the beauty of Calligraphy. During my High School and College years, I was often call upon to write the students names in this stylish penmanship. Of course, everyone loved it.
Happy Holidays to YOU!
interesting article. Also, are yu a dog lover, I saw your other's as well?
iI love dogs and cats, Hate snakes and spidrs.likerost human beings.
Still we cant all be perfect.
I love dogs and cat. Hate snakes and spiders. Love most human beings.
I suppose we can not all be perfect.
I can only appreciate the art. I'm suposed to be an artist, but I'm a simple graphic one, not a calligraphic! Thanks, Frank!
I would love to sing, play the violin, and draw great art pictures.
Did publish three art prints in nine colours many years ago in New Zealand.
The were a limited edition and sold like hot cakes.
Closes claim to fame in the art world.
TyhThank you.
I've been dabbling in calligraphy for years. It's a shame we don't write like that all the time! Thanks for the hub, MrMarmalade!
Thank you.
i can not do it. But it looks elegant
Bravo, this was a grand Hub already when I clicked into it but to find this in the comments:
"Aristotle did say. "We are what we repeatedly do.Excellence, then is not an Act but a Habit." " - (you)
What a treasure you are, MrM!
I like the quote and quote it often
Thanks for coming back with it.
you are appreciated on this end, MrM - far be it from me to underestimate you. I have to admit to you also in reference to the above comments that I'm quite fond of spiders. I will dislike snakes in solidarity with you though, in the spirit of compromise.
Great hub! that's why you would do great!
Thanks for the kind word and becoming a fan I will endeavour to entertain you in 2008
The position of umpire is up for grabs Hurry, or Bill will get the position.
It does show who rules the money. It will buy anything.
Even the spin bowler is back for Perth.
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Excellent! Thanks for sharing - rating UP :)
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Thank you for the thumbs up
I will endeavour to entertain you in 2008
Great article. For those of you who are also interested in learning about the art of writing and perhaps are interested in a good source for schools offering courses and degrees in journalism or writing check out schoolsgalore.com.
Great article. For those of you who are also interested in learning about the art of writing and perhaps are interested in a good source for schools offering courses and degrees in journalism or writing check out www.schoolsgalore.com.
Thank you for you words and advice.
Will check
I love old fashioned Calligraphy. In my previous business I have one girl employed and specialized for this old art. (Am I a bit of old fashioned kind?)
No I would not ever think that.
I believe you are a true appreciater of Art
and sadly it is disapearing faster than I am.
I'd had a very privileged location of my home...a small island in the middle of the lake, one little church from AD1142, and three big old empty houses, very, very old with may secrets...old tinted glass, marble mosaics, fantastic old paintings and much more. Everything was just asking for calligraphy, old fashioned wax seals, papyrus...
I started collecting fountain pens - old and new - years ago. I absolutely love calligraphy but even without the tips made for it, I love the way fountain pens do their thing. It's something more than writing - must be the art you talked about :) Great hub.
With the invention fountain pens pracxtically disapeared. I notice they are coming back into fashion.
There is no doubt thet Caligraphy becomes the elite of writing if you have the patience to learn and use it.
Thank you
When we visited taiwan (for our siddhartha musical show) we had the chance to visit their national museum. And we saw chinese calligraphy, really old manuscripts that had to be kept at certain temperature for preservation. Beautiful writing... Thanks for sharing this info Mr. M.
I believe it is marvelous the lengths the World goes to in preserving our priceless treasures.
Hope you enjoyed all of that trip.
Thank you
Well Done. This was one of my Topic. I was working on this. But I think you have done it better than me. Thumbs Up.
Dear Baba, you are most generous in your praise.
Thank you
Someone invented a new English art writing. It is called Vertical English Charater. it looks like Chinese calligraphy. I love it. please see www.vecusa.com for more details.
Thank you whoever you are
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cpa says:
7 months ago
Calligraphy was my hobby that turned lucrative during college for extra income addressing envelopes. Great Hub !