Sentence examples for all calligraphy from inspiring English sources

"To me it's all calligraphy," Berkenblit said.

It comes with a sensitive installation; a catalog by an international team of scholars that details his achievement as never before and translates all the calligraphy; and some rarely lent work from Japanese museums, several important cultural properties among them.

Three-dimensional sculpture and easel painting, so central to Western aesthetics, played little role in Islamic art before modern times, while media highly regarded by traditional Islamic cultures, like ceramics, textiles and -- above all -- calligraphy, are indifferently valued in the West.

It was a course in, of all things, calligraphy; I think that course instilled in him a passion for graphics that led to his demanding that the Macintosh leap beyond the single, ugly fonts of previous machines, to offer a wide variety of typefaces and sizes, plus bold, italics, and more.

Among the items in the first category are more than a dozen Koran folios, all with exceptional calligraphy.

Pottery, lacquer-ware, woodcarving, metal-work, paper-making, glass-blowing, fabric-dyeing, basket-weaving and calligraphy all survive.

For viewers with a predominantly romantic view of classical Chinese painting and calligraphy, all this talk of politics will be puzzling.

The collection, acquired by the Met in 2005, is unostentatious, with some 40 examples of painting and calligraphy, all but two dating from the 20th century.

Yet the very fact that such art is being made suggests that the polarities that have propelled calligraphy all along -- conservatism and innovation, political manipulation and personal expression -- are still in play.

In "Wild Cursive," a decidedly dry work from 2005 choreographed by Lin Hwandmin and performed by his company at the Howard Gilman Opera House on Tuesday, the stage was a collage of clichés: mysterious movement to resemble the slinky lines of calligraphy, all set to a sound score by Jim Shum and Liang Chun-mei evoking elements from nature, including chirping birds, rainfall and wind gusts.

Candidates were also judged on their skills of deportment, appearance, speech, and level of skill in calligraphy, all of which were subjective criteria that allowed the already wealthy members of society to be chosen over ones of more modest means who were unable to be educated in rhetoric or fanciful writing skills.