Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote: |2013/4/22 Steffen Daode <[email protected]> |> Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote: |>|Plus an extra knowledge masterized by experts, perceived as artists. This |>|art is called calligraphy, and calligraphy exists for all writing |> systems. |>|It is particluarly developed as an art by writers of Chinese and Arabic. |> It |>|was more important in the past for the Latin/Cyrillic/Greek alphabetic |>|family of script but it has not completely disappeared and it is still |> used |>|for the production of corporate logos, advertizing, and identifiation of |>|products and trademarks, so I would not say that calligraphy is dead in |> the |>|alphabetic script. Calligraphy is still considered bery important in |> Indic |>|abugidas as well (notably for transcriptions of religious texts, e.g. in |>|the Tibetan script) |> |> In my superficial and unaware understanding Chinese calligraphy |> has always existed as another form of meditation and a way to |> transport personal and philosophical experiences, and there seems |> to be a special kind of painting with a divided pictorial |> representation of an emphatic impression (of the artist), in a |> form of calligraphy bundled with a painted image; e.g., a |> parchment with a tree on the left side, and calligraphy on the |> right. |> |> I don't think this can be compared to what the western world knows |> as calligraphie, e.g., in Germany elementary school kids become |> graded for the prettiness of their handwriting. But it is surely |> also a matter of whether the calligrapher walks on four, two or |> three legs. Still, there surely is a philosophical difference. |> I do agree with you that this is a great pity, however. | |Your comlement is useful. Thanks. I just focused very superficially on the |meaning of calligraphy as an art, because for the rest of the details I was |not trained enough on the subject.
…nothing but a juicy complement, to end up with a rich green pasture of calligraphic possibilities. Regarding world weariness there is surely room for improvement in a sentence like |>|for the production of corporate logos, advertizing, and identifiation of |>|products and trademarks, so I would not say that calligraphy is dead in |> the alphabetic script. Hansel and Gretel would never have found a Burger Palace without a nice big billboard! Thus this shouldn't be underrated. --steffen
