Seventh PAW of 2009
For some time now I've been wondering about the use and application of calligraphy in this day and age. Where some scripts lend themselves very well to calligraphy, the Latin script seemingly does not. Scripts like Arabic, Chinese, Old Mongol and such are by their very nature calligraphic. They're painterly, meant to be drawn, often based on (stylised) images.
But who cares for the arbitrary symbols of the Latin script? The kind of calligraphy it seems to lend itself to is the kind we find in old manuscripts or on old German banknotes.
However, as you can see from the seventh PAW of 2009 there are ways to force the Latin script out off its straight jacket and make it free flowing. You may not call it calligraphy but I'm inclined to do. It's rough and uncouth. It's not Art (whatever that is) but "vandalism". Yet I am seeing purpose in it. I see someone put thought into it. The "artist" dared to step out of the box of common literature and art to find a new means of conveying his message.
But who cares for the arbitrary symbols of the Latin script? The kind of calligraphy it seems to lend itself to is the kind we find in old manuscripts or on old German banknotes.
However, as you can see from the seventh PAW of 2009 there are ways to force the Latin script out off its straight jacket and make it free flowing. You may not call it calligraphy but I'm inclined to do. It's rough and uncouth. It's not Art (whatever that is) but "vandalism". Yet I am seeing purpose in it. I see someone put thought into it. The "artist" dared to step out of the box of common literature and art to find a new means of conveying his message.
Labels: Arabic, art, calligraphy, Chinese, graffiti, Latin script, literature, manuscript, Mongol script, painting, PAW
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