(1) The bequest paintings are in Twombly's distinctive swirling calligraphic style.
(2) A trained calligrapher and painter, the ayatollah has produced a large illuminated work of art featuring passages from the writings of Baha'u'llah, the 19th-century founder of the Baha'i faith.
(3) A couple of flaps, and the male, the tiercel, would be above the female, and then he’d drift north of her, and then slip down, fast, like a knife-cut, a smooth calligraphic scrawl underneath her, and she’d dip a wing, and then they’d soar up again.
(4) This is what we learn from a repertory, famous in the XVIth century, and which, fifty years after the discovery of printing, had the honor of being richly calligraphed in miniature, (1455).
(5) They became skilled calligraphers and, hailing from far and wide, they would work as copyists to pay for their digs.
(6) Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed.
(7) The French artist Levalet , the Tunisian calligrapher El Cid and others also have works planned, and the Captain Borderline collective, the founders of Europe's largest street-art festival, plan to collaborate with Ganzeer on a large mural in Munich.
(8) He has a long history of supporting peaceful coexistence between Muslims, Christians and Jews, including with illuminated calligraphic versions of the Qur'an, the Torah, the psalms, the New Testament, and the Book of Ezra.
Calligraphy
Definition:
(n.) Fair or elegant penmanship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wang was said to excel in physics and calligraphy; Ye in literature and gymnastics.
(2) Foxconn is proud of the fact that it provides a swimming pool and other facilities to its staff, as well as organising chess, calligraphy, mountain climbing and fishing.
(3) During the early 1960s, Burroughs and his colleague, the painter and writer Brion Gysin , had developed the cut-up as a method of visual and verbal reassembly that was equally applicable to painting, montaged artworks, calligraphy, tape manipulation and the word.
(4) He stays healthy and alert by eating well and practising calligraphy, according to his family.
(5) Thus began the evolution of this city’s distinctive pixação: a style of urban writing that has inspired numerous pixadores to come up with their own variations on this type of calligraphy – according to one estimate, there are more than 5,000 active pixadores in São Paulo alone.
(6) "She was so approachable," said Lu Yuhong, 16, who guided the first lady in writing the Chinese character "eternal" in calligraphy at the Beijing school.
(7) But the man whose calligraphy we ponder - a jobbing scribe, probably - was not the author.
(8) Stores are offering Rooster-themed products, Chinese calligraphy or handing out treats in traditional red envelopes.
(9) But Mo told Der Spiegel that he only joined in with the project because he was "vain enough to take the opportunity to show off with my calligraphy".
(10) Ahmad Salma, a Syrian of Palestinian origin, used the sinuous swirls of different styles of Arabic calligraphy to spell out the names of the provinces of Syria – to emphasise unity in the face of violence and rising sectarianism.
(11) With chainsaws and chisels, carving ice requires techniques from tree surgery to calligraphy.
(12) He left his homeland in the early 60s to spend two years in China, steeping himself in its language and calligraphy.
(13) In the few hours that sunlight enters the dark cell we read what a past cellmate has inscribed on the walls in an elegant Arabic calligraphy.
(14) Let me give you one example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.
(15) Williams, a trained engraver, worked as a map-maker during the war and listed calligraphy among his hobbies in Who's Who , but his astonishing skill has confounded even Nicolas Barker, a former handwriting expert at the British Museum, who has looked at the diaries.
(16) Their ubiquitous calligraphy is composed of straight lines and sharp edges, giving their creations – pixos – a jagged look.
(17) He dropped out after one term, but continued to go to some classes, including a course on calligraphy.
(18) For services to Western Calligraphy and the community in Northern Ireland.
(19) Not only is Mao's own rather wild calligraphy everywhere to be seen in Shaoshan - on paper, on rocks, on walls, on silk - but also that of Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin.
(20) Wen Huaisha, a former Pekin University teacher and a specialist in Chinese literature is in France for an exhibition of his calligraphy at the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris.