About this deck
Calligraphy is the slowest visual art and the most patient. A single Chinese character can take a master sixty years to master. A single Quranic verse can take a year to compose. Key sections include: Calli graphy.; Opening The hand and the mark.; Chapter I Before calligraphy.; Chapter II The five scripts.; Chapter III The Sage of Calligraphy.; Chapter IV The Tang.; Chapter V Song through Qing.; Chapter VI East Asian variants.; Chapter VII Arabic calligraphy.; Chapter VIII Kufic..
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