Crossword clues for calligraphy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calligraphy \Cal*lig"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. ???????????: cf. F. calligraphie.] Fair or elegant penmanship.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Greek kaligraphia, from kallos "beauty" (see Callisto) + graphein "to write" (see -graphy). Related: Calligraphic. The usual comb. form in Greek was kalli- "beautiful, fine, happy, favorable;" kalo- was a later, rarer alternative form.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The art or practice of writing letters and words in a decorative style; the letters and words so written. 2 (context countable English) Any such style of decorative writing.
WordNet
n. beautiful handwriting [syn: penmanship]
Wikipedia
Calligraphy is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a broad tip instrument, brush, among other writing instruments. A contemporary calligraphic practice can be defined as, "the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious, and skillful manner".
Modern calligraphy ranges from functional inscriptions and designs to fine-art pieces where the letters may or may not be readable. Classical calligraphy differs from typography and non-classical hand-lettering, though a calligrapher may practice both.
Calligraphy continues to flourish in the forms of wedding and event invitations, font design and typography, original hand-lettered logo design, religious art, announcements, graphic design and commissioned calligraphic art, cut stone inscriptions, and memorial documents. It is also used for props and moving images for film and television, testimonials, birth and death certificates, maps, and other written works.
Usage examples of "calligraphy".
Islamic calligraphy, medieval Jewish mysticism, the Bahai sect, Persian miniatures, Jerusalem at the time of the Second Temple, archeological finds in central Anatolia.
Lake Biwa, Cat and Hanshiro left their own calligraphy brushes in the earthenware container full of those left by worshipers.
Next to it, an eerily calm Islamic downlink ceaselessly reiterates the name of God in a fractal-based calligraphy.
Alcuin was trained in HibernoSaxon calligraphy, so that we may be surprised to find that the writing which, under Charles the Great, he developed at Tours, bears hardly a trace of the style to which he was accustomed.
Abdul wrote, because his calligraphy, which he had learned in the Christian kingdoms beyond the sea, could suggest the way an Oriental would write Latin letters.
Mr Wei, hailing as you do from the fertile plains of central China, proud scion of the Chinese race, are doubtless a young man of broad culture, and have a keen appreciation of calligraphy and the pictorial arts.
Thinking about how calligraphy might be connected with imagining buildings.
Again, I might search out scraps of old calligraphy, or just give myself to meditation and watch the flow of the river.
Sune, with a porch overhanging the water, and there I will devote myself to calligraphy and meditation.
Princess Pegeen taught me runing and calligraphy when I was just a child.
Kufic calligraphy, though the decorations would char away long before the ship reached even a fraction of its final speed.
Black against sun-gold and dust-white, they inscribe intricate calligraphies in the air.
Thick dark ink, in many different calligraphies, most of them extravagantly individual.
The sky was an unclouded pool of turquoise that rippled calligraphies whenever I swept my eyes across it.
The curlicued calligraphy of the words brother dov godz made an outrageous moustache across the anthropomorphic sun's rosy upper lip.