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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"calligraphy"”.
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The Tradition of Imitative Copying in Chinese Calligraphy
In many cultures, calligraphy is regarded as a decorative art, but in China calligraphy is one of the highest forms of art, in many ways comparable to painting and classical music in the West. No matter the material representation of Chinese calligraphy—paper, silk, wood or bamboo slips, animal …
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Harmonious Screen Interface Design Principles from Chinese Calligraphy
… forms, e.g. painting and garden design. However, calligraphy gives a straight forward insight into harmony in two dimensions. The main hypothesis was that the principles for building a harmonious calligraphic character could be converted from holistic to deductive and computable ones. These could …
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Calligraphy As A Developmental Tool For Chinese Painting
… introduces the novel idea of developing specific calligraphy skills in order to improve Chinese painting skills within a restricted time period (1-3 hours). The results show differences that are statistically significant between the pre and post test paintings created by 23 subjects from both the …
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Volumetric cloud generation using a Chinese brush calligraphy style
… in nature. User tests indicate that our brush calligraphy approach is preferred to conventional volumetric cloud modelling and that it produces convincing 3D cloud formations in an intuitive and interactive fashion. While traditional modelling systems focus on surface generation of 3D objects, …
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Glyph based segmentation of Chinese calligraphy characters in the "Collected Characters" stele.
… remains extremely difficult for ancient Chinese calligraphy documents. This paper examines a glyph-based segmentation technique for segmenting Chinese Calligraphy characters in the "Collected Characters". The glyph-based character segmentation pipeline utilizes a combination of well-understood …
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"A Painter's Brush That Also Makes Poems": Contemporary Painting After Northern Song Calligraphy
There is no Western equivalent to the practice of calligraphy in pre-modern China, an aesthetic form which does not resolve itself into a literary object or a visual one. Calligraphy was sustained by a rich and complex body of thought that can fully rival art criticism and theory in the West. To …
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The intercorrelation between Arabic calligraphy and graphic design in Saudi Arabia: an analytical study of the current status of Arabic calligraphy and the impact of graphic design and Saudi’s policy on its role as a traditional craft
… body of knowledge of the development of Arabic calligraphy, an art form that has passed through many historical stages since the advent of Islam and the revelation of the Holy Qur’an, in its patterns, styles, values and concepts. The relationship between Arabic calligraphy and Graphic design in …
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The Effects Of Chinese Calligraphy On Reducing Anxiety And Comorbid Depression Levels Among Breast Cancer Patients In Hong Kong
… study was to investigate the effects of Chinese calligraphy on reducing the anxiety and comorbid depression levels among Hong Kong breast cancer patients with an intention to support the needs of breast cancer patients by providing alternative therapy that is culturally receptive. The primary …
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ColloGraphy: Designing Augmented Visual-Haptic Feedback Systems to Support Fine Motor Skill Learning
… Specifically, this thesis focuses on Chinese calligraphy writing as an example of a complex, fine motor task, in which learning it can be augmented by additional feedback. The traditional method of learning calligraphy writing involves learners comparing the visual differences in their writing …
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(In)visible Ink: gender and Chineseness in contemporary Chinese art
… experimental ink practices (shiyan shuimo) and calligraphy (shufa) in the work of four women artists in the People’s Republic of China – Bingyi, Ma Yanling, Tao Aimin and Xiao Lu. The thesis highlights the gendered histories and nationalist legacies of ink painting and calligraphy associated …
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Emocijų dienoraštis /
… Letter of promoting and developing the font and calligraphy art. Calligraphy is an artistic sense of satisfaction, feeling the beauty of the work comes from a deep, intimate contact with the artist, artist's soul, imagination, intellect, with his emotions. It can be called experience. This is …
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An artist-educator's role in community arts : integrating people of diverse backgrounds and ages
… work. Through giving "Art of Japanese Calligraphy" Workshops, I developed my teaching method focusing on creativity of personal expression through collaborative work. The documentary video of the project shows the active process of the participants' personal creations. The participants …
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Korean art and the avant-garde dilemma
… with western gesture, and Suk-Chang Hong‘s free calligraphy to combine still-life, landscape, calligraphy, and scribbling.
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Envisioning Antiquity: Yi Bingshou and the Politics of Memory in the Qing Dynasty
… or the “stele tradition,” advocates the engraved calligraphy on early stelae as the ideal model.My dissertation examines how Yi Bingshou (1754–1815), a key figure in the stele tradition, employed archaic styles of calligraphy to establish new aesthetic standards, commemorate historical figures, …
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Indeterminate Lines
… of cursive script (grass script) of Far Eastern calligraphy. My individual plant pieces work as dots and lines of cursive script. An installation's ceramic pieces illustrate similar flow and movement when viewed as a whole.
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Shaping Religious and Cultural Aspiration: Engraved Sutras in Southwestern Shandong Province from the Northern Qi Dynasty (550-577 CE), China
… written statements about the excellence of the calligraphy used, and discourse on calligraphy connoisseurship.</p>
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Batik cloths from Jambi, Sumatra
… surrounding a group of batiks containing Arabic calligraphy. A further purpose of the study was then to determine which, if any, of these calligraphy batiks were made in Jambi. For those which did, my intention was to discover how they fitted into the social and economic context in which they …
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Study of Figura in Gradual, MS Perkins 4 at Denison Library, Scripps College
… text in MS Perkins 4, namely music notation, calligraphy writing, and illuminations. I argue that MS Perkins 4 is not only a music manuscript but also an artwork with great value of beauty. Finally, I explore the symbolic meanings of fleur-de-lis and salamanders to argue further that the …
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