0 (the art of producing) beautiful writing, often created with a special pen or brush:
There's some wonderful calligraphy in these old manuscripts.
1 the art of producing beautiful writing, often created with a special pen or brush
Collectively these art works redress calligraphy's historical emphases on epigrams, language purity, and expressive brushstrokes, finding other validating criteria for this ancient art form.
The poetic themes are implied, and the art of poetry and calligraphy is not highlighted.
The landscape throws out rushes of calligraphy and is constantly rewriting itself.
The text's beautiful, delicate, cautious, and painstaking calligraphy is equally encoded with ethical implications.
Furthermore, the addition of poetic captions coincides with the appearance of a pictorial vocabulary learned from painting and calligraphy.
They were also expected to prove their acquaintance with the correct forms of administrative documents and to show the quality of their calligraphy.
The knowledge of how to appreciate painting and calligraphy was no longer the privilege of the literati.
The calligraphy translates as: 'diligent, rigorous, practical and realistic, and creative'.