Another sample stunning art using Islamic verse written in beautiful Arabic calligraphy and beautiful....
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
calligraphy art Qur'an Verses
Another sample stunning art using Islamic verse written in beautiful Arabic calligraphy and beautiful....
Arabic calligraphy forms canary
I've long been interested in the tradition of Arabic calligraphic art. We don't see much of it here in the west, so we enjoyed popping into galleries in Istanbul and seeing so many examples. As a new writer who is a little bit obsessed with perfecting his own penmanship, E was particularly engrossed in these pictures made out of words.
Arabic calligraphy colorful design
Arabic calligraphy is a genuine Arabic and Islamic art form and it links the literary heritage of the Arabic language with the religion of Islam. It is an artistic tradition of extraordinary beauty, richness and power. Calligraphy means "beautiful handwriting," and in Arabic it also means "the geometry of the spirit."
Arabic calligraphy bird Jila Peacock
The images of living
creatures fashioned by Jila Peacock from Persian poetry fall naturally
into a long and distinguished tradition within Islamic art. Unlike many
such traditions of that art, this one is still full of vitality in our
own day, and has shown an impressive capacity to regenerate itself.
Indeed, it could well be argued that the art of beautiful writing – for
that is what “calligraphy” means – has, alone of the major Islamic
visual arts, continued its creative evolution without a break from the
first Islamic century until the present day. In other words, it has
been less subject to failing inspiration or to the dominance of ideas
from outside the Islamic world than have all its sister arts, from
architecture to painting, from pottery to carpets. If any one art can
claim to evoke the essential character of the Islamic world, in
medieval as in modern times, this is it...
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