Friday 25 September 2009

The Art Of Calligraphy

By Andy Li

From the start of the civilization, writing styles have been greatly developed, including tools and materials. During the prehistoric period, stones and sticks were used as tools to clay tablets for cave paintings. And there were reed pens for writing on papyrus, quill pens for parchment, which are similar to metal pens and ball pens in nowadays.

Young people today seldom use the old writing styles. However, they would still produce Maori Rock Drawings which can be made well on small copper circles or copper enamel ash trays.

Nowadays, the art of calligraphy is commonly incorporated in advertising and designing. With the creativity of our modern artists, calligraphy is no longer seen only on papers, but also on other surfaces like fabrics, glass, ceramics, etc. 3D-designs are another commonly used technique as well.

Nowadays, modern Calligraphers can use their personal experience to enrich, inspire and nurture their work. This article can attract more people to this art, and also to reveal their abilities of design and creativeness, as well as to help develop the art of calligraphy to a higher place.

Calligraphy appears on both functional hand lettered inscriptions and fine art designs. On these designs, the clarity of the letters are replaced by abstract handwritten marks which are difficult to read.

Calligraphy is being widely used, such as for weddings, event invitations, typography, logo design, religious art, some cut stone inscriptions, memorial documents, props and images for movies and dramas, testimonials and other work which involves writings.

Literally, calligraphy means beautiful writing. It was the method to produce a book in 500 yeas ago, when the invention of the printing press wasn't developed. Each copy of the reading materials was handwritten by scribe working in a scriptorium. Quill and ink were used to write on materials like vellum and parchment.

There are three main types of calligraphy in today's society, that's the Western or Roman, Arabic and Chinese or Oriental.

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