Snail Scott on wed 8 nov 00
Just a comment about calligraphy:
When many people hear the word, they envision the lettering on
a wedding invitation or certificate. Formal, fancy, and maybe
a bit stuffy. This is certainly the mainstay of many professional
calligraphers' incomes, but a narrow view of the art.
Calligraphy is writing considered as art. Many factors come into
play: beauty and decorative use, certainly, but also design of the
script (room for much innovation here), composition of the text
arrangement, color and rhythm, and (this is big)...appropriateness.
Sometimes elegant 'traditional' hands are less appropriate than
something informal, casual, or even deliberately crude. The context
of the lettering, the content of the words, and the overall work of
art are factors which guide this choice, whether on paper, pottery,
or the side of a building (signage or graffiti).
The best calligraphy is a wholly considered work, not just the
application of letters, and it encompasses the entire potential range
of written language. Consider the possibilities!
-Snail
At 08:52 PM 11/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Joyce,
>I realized today that I misunderstood what mel was talking about.
>When I hear the word 'calligraphy', I think about the Islamic lettering.
>Or Chinese, or Japanese. etc. I now realize mel was talking about 'fancy
>english lettering'. ( I hope!):>)
>In which case it is not pretentious, but could be artistic.
>
Lee Love on thu 9 nov 00
> At 08:52 PM 11/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >Joyce,
> >I realized today that I misunderstood what mel was talking about.
> >When I hear the word 'calligraphy', I think about the Islamic lettering.
> >Or Chinese, or Japanese
Joyce, I thought the same thing. Here is a link to a calligraphy that was
painted by my Grandfather Hashimoto. It is of Daruma and says "Seven Time
Down, Eight Times UP!" One of my life's mottoes:
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=815504&a=9378832&p=30680430
--
Lee Love
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Joyce Lee on fri 10 nov 00
Thank you for sharing your grandfather's calligraphy. I almost didn't
check it out, thinking that it would simply be writing that I could
neither read nor understand. What a surprise!
Joyce
In the Mojave
> Joyce, I thought the same thing. Here is a link to a calligraphy that was
> painted by my Grandfather Hashimoto. It is of Daruma and says "Seven Time
> Down, Eight Times UP!" One of my life's mottoes:
>
> http://albums.photopoint.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=815504&a=9378832&p=30680430
>
Graeme Anderson on mon 4 apr 05
I'm sure a lot of potters use the craft of calligraphy on pots as well as
other materials.
Great care must be used in copying old material. Remember the old joke of
the priest banging his head against the wall after checking some ancient
manuscripts in the vaults, and muttering through his tears -
"The word was celebrate!!"
Cheers. Graeme.
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