The latest Japanese Nintendo DS game ain’t anime oriented, it’s Bimoji Training — the game that hones your Japanese calligraphic skills. Also known as Beautiful Letter Training, the game trains you in the proper creation of Kanji and Kana characters with help from its included stylus that favors that of an traditional Japanese lettering brush. [...]
Evidentemente este sera un título de venta exclusiva en Japón :)
Dentro de 5 días va a salir a la venta en Japón este “juego”, en el que la práctica en la escritura de los kanji será el principal objetivo. Seguramente este título no os motive, pero es una muy buena noticia para los no-japoneses que [...]
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“This new mode was not a matter of script metamorphosing into living forms which are also readable letters, but of using script to delineate such forms. Seldom had the flexibility of the Arabic alphabet been so tested.
This practice , betwenn make optical illusions an art ( of course , far away of the digital art) [...]
I am reading about calligraphy in Herbert Read’s “A Concise history of Modern Painting”. Calligraphy is (perhaps, I’d say as I don’t really trust any theory) at the root of Abstract Expressionism. What an insight! probably not for people with a formal ed in art, but it is for me. Why that is such a blast is that I am working away at getting the verticals right in my new crosses, and contemplating that line. I feel like some Zen calligrapher meditating on the strokes! It is a meditation. I delete 100’s and suddenly one will be right.
And the idea grabbed me because it is a strong theme that emerged in the Thousand Sketches. I wanted to get those lines right, that flow. I am quite pleased with how it went, there were a lot of doodles and slowly they were more in my handwriting as it were. This is one of my favourites. And the Abstract Expressionist ones that I blew up, my friend Charles called “calligraphy of God” I was most flattere
In China calligraphy occupies a distinguished position in the field of traditional art. It is not only a means of communication, but also a means of expressing a person’s inner world in an aesthetic sense.
Ancient people paid great attention to calligraphy. To practise calligraphy requires the basic tools of ‘four treasures of study’ (writing brush, [...]
Today I had the fortune of meeting a gentleman of Afghani background by way of Tokyo and the United States. Besides being very passionate about life he shared with me some photos of his art...Islamic Calligraphy. While I have seen this type of art in the past I never really thought about the "real" art of it. I think maybe I just assumed it wasn't as much an art as just a way of writing. Naive, yes I am. Then I was shown some photographs of the most beautiful ART I think I have ever seen. It brought tears to my eyes. Honestly it did. For the rest of the day all I could think about was how truly beautiful his art work is. I am going to ask him to do some Islamic calligraphy and do two things;1) Get something tattooed on my lower middle back.2) Incorporate in to as many paintings as I possibly can.Oh and the third thing.... I'm going to paint it on the wall of my living room.I've always had a thing about Islamic art but now a whole new world has opened up. I wonder how hard it is to l
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My friend Charles coined a phrase “Calligraphy of God”
the Renaissance notion of “reading nature as a book” — or what
one might term “meditation on the calligraphy of god”.
He quotes Gyorgi Kepes to explain the idea.
Seen together, aerial maps of river estuaries and road systems,
feathers, fern leaves, branching blood vessels, nerve ganglia,
electron micrographs of crystals and the tree-like patterns of
electrical discharge-figures are connected, although they are
vastly different in place, origin, and scale. Their similarity of
form is by no means accidental.
He was reminded of this notion with some of my sketches, and asked for more in the style of “Drumbeat”, which is one of my favourites. (I have more in the style among the “Abstract” Category). At his request here are a few more.
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More thoughts on this follow, with quotes from Pollock, Kandinsky and Harold Rosenberg on Action Painting.
So how is
"Placecards for Flo"Panache Pen with black inkOne of the other things I do....calligraphy. There is a grand lady who is greatly loved by her family and friends and she is turning 85 this week. She was born to a poor family in Iowa, was raised just out of the depression years, married a guy who was a Medical Illustrator for the University of Iowa, had two children, and worked most all of her life in the fashion industry. One of her children died when he was 13. Her husband died a few years ago and she has come here to live with her daughter who happens to be my best friend in town. On top of all of the other things mentioned above, she is beautiful, gracious, generous, and lovely. In fact, as I was thinking of her while doing the calligraphy today, I realized she is one of those very rare people who simply does not have a bad quality. I can't think of one. How many of us will be thought of that way when we are 85? Now why is there a cow among the placecards?? Well, the menu is
 Calligraphy is an art dating back to the earliest day of history, and widely practiced throughout China to this day. Although it uses Chinese words as its vehicle of expression, one does not have to know Chinese to appreciate its beauty. Because in essence, Calligraphy is an abstract art. While ...
