Video: Beauty in Calligraphy

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Beauty can be the summation of parts working together in a way that nothing needs to be added. Learn about beauty in calligraphy from a calligrapher in this free art video.

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Well, I just made a very bold statement. I said that we are going to be doing beautiful letters. So I think I better define the idea of what beauty is. Or at least a practical definition that's going to work for us as we study the alphabet. Beauty, the summation of the parts working together in such a way that nothing needs to be added, taken away or altered. Now in the Roman capital alphabet, that beautiful monumental Roman, underlying the shapes of the letters, the forms of the letters, are the circle, triangle and square. Your basic geometric forms. But in order to harmonize these, what we are going to do is we are going to create this idea of an underlying geometric design. And it's basically a harmonizing of the circle and the volume of the circle. And the square goes to a rectangle and then we have these shapes in the middle. So what we're actually going to be doing is thinking in terms of having our letters be either single story letters or two story letters. So for example, the A is going to be a two story letter. So this will come clear to you as I demonstrate.

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Beauty in Calligraphy

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