Sometimes, he finds, "the beauty of the Saracens' fluid calligraphy moved him.
Taken with the notion that a Catholic priest surveying the codex during the Inquisition might choose to save it, Brooks creates another memorable character, an erudite scholar with "an innate reverence for books". Sometimes, he finds, "the beauty of the Saracens' fluid calligraphy moved him.
Saturated in classical traditions of landscape painting and calligraphy, he moved to New York in 1949 and immersed himself in Abstract Expressionism.
Xing Fei moves calligraphy into the third dimension with her knitted "strokes".
Some of the younger practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic began to de-emphasize text in favour of letterforms and gesture, moving calligraphy in the direction of contemporary painting and drawing.
Let's not say he didn't take uswith him in the long current of his letters, his calligraphy and craft, moving from port to port, his hand stoppingnear his heart, the hand that smudged and graced the page, asking, asking, his fingers a beggar's lucent black,for the word that gave each of us away.
Taking an interest in calligraphy at an early age, Mestrovic moved to Japan, where he learned Japanese and continued to expand his interest in the spoken and written word.
Basquiat's Warhol collaboration reopened my eyes to pop art and I moved away from graffiti as calligraphy, to see if I could paint in a more symbolic way.
Preserving and, where necessary, restoring knowledge of those arts — among them classical poetry and calligraphy — would become a vital concern of his after he moved to the United States in 1949.
She was born Patricia Cooch in Wembley, Middlesex, and moved with her parents to Farnborough, Hampshire, where she was first introduced to calligraphy at Farnborough Hill convent college by Minnie Hall (who had been taught by Edward Johnston).
George Salter moved to New York City from Germany in 1934 and in 1937 began teaching lettering and calligraphy at Cooper Union, where he inspired many students to enter the world of commercial lettering.
