Sentence examples for lines of calligraphy from inspiring English sources

I did a sketch of him, and I still have a couple of lines of calligraphy that he did for me".

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.

What she remembers most is the musty air and thick coat of dust that covered the floor, the delicate pieces of furniture, the lushly paneled walls etched with courtly lines of calligraphy.

"I was hooked," said Welch, who now sees knitting as an art practice along the lines of music, calligraphy, or painting.

With a common enemy, the Holy Roman Emperor, François and Suleiman made common cause.The most beautiful object in this exhibition is a five-metre-long scroll covered with sepia lines of feathery calligraphy.

As the meeting broke up, Jonas observed what was surely an uncommonly successful attempt at Tolkien-themed romance: a girl and a boy sitting closely next to each other, the girl's right hand holding a pen, while the boy's hand clasped hers over it, as they traced, as one, the elegant lines of Elvish calligraphy.

The Gilded Age architect H. H. Richardson conceived his buildings largely in terms of their magnificent roofs -- his sketches reveal a single fluid line of architectural calligraphy.

The design for most characters was based on the work of caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, which production designer Richard Vander Wende also considered appropriate to the theme, due to similarities to the swooping lines of Persian miniatures and Arabic calligraphy.

Melissa Meyer paints clusters of lines based on calligraphy that are largely unstructured, yet oddly systematic.

The finest examples of this pictorial shorthand are found in Japanese ink painting, where an expressive economy and vitality of line is closely linked to a traditional mastery of calligraphy.

The aesthetics of line in calligraphy and painting have had a significant influence on the other arts in China.