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Calligraffiti at Port de Pêche de Sayada, February, 2017. Calligraffiti is an art form that combines calligraphy, typography, and graffiti.It can be classified as either abstract expressionism or abstract vandalism.
Calligraphy (from Ancient Greek καλλιγραφία (kalligraphía) 'beautiful writing') is a visual art related to writing.It is the design and execution of lettering with a pen, ink brush, or other writing instrument.
Carolingian minuscule alphabet Example from 10th-century manuscript, Vulgate Luke 1:5–8.. Carolingian minuscule or Caroline minuscule is a script which developed as a calligraphic standard in the medieval European period so that the Latin alphabet of Jerome's Vulgate Bible could be easily recognized by the literate class from one region to another.
Calligraphy organizations, societies, and schools (10 P) S. Script typefaces (2 C, 25 P) W. Western calligraphy (12 C, 47 P) Works of calligraphy (9 P)
The Xuanhe Calligraphy Manual (宣和書譜) credits Wang Cizhong with creating the regular script, based on the clerical script of the early Han dynasty (202 BCE – 220 CE). It became popular during the Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms periods, [ 2 ] with Zhong Yao ( c. 151 – 230 CE), [ 3 ] a calligrapher in the state of Cao Wei (220–266 ...
George Bickham's Round hand script, from The Universal Penman, c. 1740–1741. Round hand (also roundhand) is a type of handwriting and calligraphy originating in England in the 1660s primarily by the writing masters John Ayres and William Banson.
On the visual side, the calligraphy refers to the Tuscan Macchiaioli, the Pre-Raphaelites, and the symbolists. In this sense, the influence of contemporary French cinema is dominant, in particular of poetic realism and the works of Jean Renoir , Marcel Carné , and Julien Duvivier , but also of the American and German.
Thuluth (Arabic: ثُلُث, Ṯuluṯ or Arabic: خَطُّ الثُّلُثِ, Ḵaṭṭ-uṯ-Ṯuluṯ; Persian: ثلث, Sols; Turkish: Sülüs, from thuluth "one-third") is an Arabic script variety of Islamic calligraphy. The straight angular forms of Kufic were replaced in the new script by curved and oblique lines.