It has been widely used in calligraphy, painting and book printing.
Rather than state on her "Dinner with Bevy" invitations that smartphone use is prohibited, Ms. Smith says she sends "unspoken signals" to discourage tweeting and texting, such as hand-delivered invitations and seating cards lettered in calligraphy.
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Hussein's handwritten "Allahu Akbar, " or "God Is Great, " was replaced by the same phrase printed in green but in different calligraphy.
In an essay accompanying a 1984 exhibition of Japanese calligraphy in the U.S. titled "Words in Motion, " he says of his masterpiece "Brightness in Every Direction!"
Any representation of the human form has traditionally been discouraged in Islamic art, helping Arabic calligraphy to thrive in its place.
If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.
Rather than placing the calligraphy in the context of street art and design, "we are showing the works as art and sculpture pieces", said Natasha Whiffin, the gallery's manager.
Many of Jobs' most intriguing ideas would arise from the most unlikely locations and experiences--studying calligraphy in college, or visiting an ashram in India or the kitchen appliance department at Macy's.
Bowler, a Thailand-based Australian, has run half a dozen of the tours in recent years, during which participants are taught the basics of Islamic practice, study Islamic history and calligraphy, pray in mosques and live and eat with Muslim families.
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.
Lavish costumes are on display in the Dormitory of the Expeditionary Force, important Islamic relics are housed in the Sacred Safekeeping Rooms and fine examples of Ottoman calligraphy and portraiture are exhibited in the Quarters of Pages in Charge of the Sacred Safekeeping Rooms.
In every room there is a sense of serenity, whether the children are practicing brush strokes for calligraphy, tumbling around in judo or gliding their little fingers over the harmounia, a type of piano used in music class.
In its distinctive Chinese form, calligraphy offers an important channel for the appreciation of traditional culture and for arts education.
In addition to mastery of traditional calligraphy, the art of engraving requires a high degree of virtuosity, since the artist works on a tiny surface area where every curve, every thickness of line counts.
Today, in addition to traditional master-apprentice instruction, calligraphy is also taught at school.
There are young people in Egypt who are learning basket weaving and storytelling, calligraphy and photography.
Taazyeh also plays a significant role in preserving associated crafts, such as costume-making, calligraphy and instrument-making.
He dropped out of college so he could "drop in" to classes that really interested him, such as calligraphy, whose lessons would come back to him years later when he designed the Mac, the first personal computer with beautiful fonts.
As an instrument of calligraphy and painting, the seal is a work of art in itself.
Among the items in the first category are more than a dozen Koran folios, all with exceptional calligraphy.
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Instead of developing a narrow specialization, they study, say, calligraphy (as Mr. Jobs famously did) or hang out with friends in different fields.
The traditional collection includes Buddhist art, metal works, calligraphy and watercolor scrolls, and spans prehistory to Korea's last royal dynasty, which fell in 1910.
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