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As a series of similarly bordered, skittery, black ink drawings on paper inspired by the calligraphy of a Sung dynasty letter suggests, this framing device is meant to evoke the Chinese practice of mounting drawings on larger pieces of fabric for formal display.

One of the chief pleasures of "American Moderns on Paper" is its reminder that the line's ability to speak with power can be found not only in the aggressive calligraphy of a David Smith but also in the delicate tracery of an Alexander Calder.

So he does his best to balance the two identities, proudly displaying on the walls of his office Arabic calligraphy of a Viking ship in the form of a verse from the Quran. .

Time off: Sent his collection of Islamic calligraphy on a current tour of U.S. museums, including a stop at New York's Metro-politan Museum of Art. Metro-politan Museum of Art

"We are moving along with the times and incorporating Arabic calligraphy on a variety of products in modern ways," she said.

It comes as no surprise to learn that the lurching, sliding calligraphy on a set of scrolls by the 17th-century artist Fu Shan is the work of man who advocated intoxication as political protest.

It isn't such a leap that the calligraphy on a piece of paper by 17th-century Dutch painter Jan van de Velde should seem similar to the graphic-printed pattern on a piece of linen by designer Angelo Testa from the late 1940s and then echoed in a cuff bracelet made in 1993.

Other Surrealist notables are Miro's "Dutch Interior III" (1928), the only Miro in the show; it is a playful canvas with a freewheeling calligraphy of black and brightly colored biomorphic forms, linear scratchings, a hint of a foot and ebullient bird shapes.

The current one, which opened on July 3 at the Musée Guimet, is dedicated to the ceramics, lacquerware and calligraphy of Rosanjin Kitaoji, an early-20th-century pioneer of the art of the table.

Here is the spare calligraphy of Winter Road I, a single dark ribbon describing the whole of a rolling snowbound landscape as it unfurls with suave simplicity across the canvas.

Later, there is the near-abstract calligraphy of "Grazing Animals on an Alp" (1917) and the idyllic scrawl of "Cows on a Mountain" (1919).