Their work goes well beyond the formal, traditional calligraphy in which they were all trained.
The reason is that choreographer Lin hasi-min has taken his inspiration from the ancient Chinese art of "wild calligraphy", in which written characters are set free from their normal forms, allowing those who write them to express their inner state.
This belief fails to take account of the essentially abstract nature of most great calligraphy, in which the literal meaning of the characters is only one component of the meaning of the image.
There are moments of dramatic jumps, as in a series of five works in which Taiga enlarges his calligraphy into big, brusque flourishes on two hanging scrolls and alternates them with three that depict bamboo in similar broad, brusque, yet impeccably controlled strokes.
Beginning in the late 1980's, he gave an advanced graduate seminar on Arabic calligraphy, in which he explained the earliest scripts -- the angular style of the script of the Koran, coins and architectural decoration and the cursive styles used in contracts, documents and, much later, in all decoration.
I believe we should be having dialogue on cultural issues – music, art, archaeology, painting, calligraphy – in which we share so much historical reference and so much potential for future gain.
In Chinese it is pronounced 'dao', and, altered in Japanese mouths, this sound became the 'do' part in judo and aikido, and indeed in shodo – which means calligraphy, or the 'way of writing'.
Mr. Xu presents a major continuing installation titled "New English Calligraphy" (1995-2006), in which audience members are invited into a kind of classroom with tables, chairs and paper and encouraged via an instructional video to try their hand at New English Calligraphy.
In 1997 commemorations of the saint's death on June 9th 597 had a more Catholic flavour.In the latest celebration of the monastic saint, there was not much sign that anyone grasped the meaning of the word monk, or the idea of an existence devoted to prayer in which feats of navigation and calligraphy were seen only as by-products.
Saudi Arabia's relationship to oil is also on display in artist Nugamshi's Calligraphy Car, in which the artist writes in oil over the surface of a jeep.
