There was no correlation to calligraphy or Arab-esque patterns.
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Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.
Shaw feels students need more rigorous majors to prepare them for the job market, but the late college dropout Steve Jobs pointed to a calligraphy class that he audited as one of his major commercial inspirations.
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Alongside its permanent collections spread over several floors, visitors can watch masters at work, from silk embroidery to woodcarving and calligraphy, while workshops initiate children to painting opera masks and other artistic activities.
Any representation of the human form has traditionally been discouraged in Islamic art, helping Arabic calligraphy to thrive in its place.
Instead Jiang took Barshefsky to a private pavilion for viewing swans and chatted cordially to her about calligraphy scrolls hanging on the walls.
To battle this dark hopelessness, I started Chinese calligraphy and taichi lessons to calm down and maintain some social contact.
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Though they had mastered the arts of war, they had time to devote to such pursuits as calligraphy, Zen Buddhism and the patronage of the stylized and masked performances of Noh theater.
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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.
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.
Today, in addition to traditional master-apprentice instruction, calligraphy is also taught at school.
The wide diversity of patterns reflects a variety of influences, ranging from Arabic calligraphy, European bouquets and Chinese phoenixes to Japanese cherry blossoms and Indian or Persian peacocks.
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.
Before co-founding Apple in 1976, Jobs dabbled in calligraphy, electronics and psychedelic drugs, even travelling to India in search of spiritual enlightenment in 1974 after dropping out from college.
Among the creative platforms Tsang used to convey his harangues is a map of Hong Kong that he covered in calligraphy, as well as an umbrella and two paper lanterns.
In the Nasrid Palaces, a palace complex within the palace complex, the combination of building materials (wood, stone, ceramics and plaster) with traditional Islamic forms (intricate calligraphy, stuccoed ceilings and interwoven geometric patterns) reaches a point close to perfection.
But if brevity is to be deplored, what should we make of haiku, sonnets, and ink-brush calligraphy?
After World War II, Chinese archaeological artifacts scrolls, pottery, bronze castings adorned with calligraphy were uncovered in abundance, and their freedom of form inspired Aoyama to let loose even further.
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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"When you study calligraphy and read how the old manuscripts describe the letters and the proportions, they use the human anatomy to describe the letters, " she says.
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