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This workshop aims to get calligraphers thinking about meaning in their work. We will be looking at the work of modern artists who use text in their work and asking questions about the form/content relationships that they employ. We will then look at modern calligraphy to see if the lessons learned from the art world can apply there.
A good deal of time will be spent discussing ideas before we get down to work with pen and ink.
The practical side of the course will involve exercises that I used with my students at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in the Spring of 2004. Some of the exercises will be calligraphic, others will not. The aim is to encourage you to look at the discipline of calligraphy from an entirely new perspective.
Laurie Doctor • Beauty and Repetition
Exploring the Relationships among Drawing, Writing and Beauty. It is a profound human instinct to want to re-create beauty, to hold it in our eye or heart a moment longer. In this class we will explore drawing and writing as a way to reflect beauty. We will work from two dimensional pieces (kinds of writing) and from three dimensional objects as a starting place for exercises in form (e.g., blind contour drawing, seeing negative space) and expression (e.g. using shells or bones as our pen; changing scale, movement and direction). The attention that this activity requires is a way of developing seeing and creating line quality in drawing and writing. We will make small portfolios of our work as a visual diary or record of ideas and inspiration. Writing tools, paper, poetry, materials for the portfolio and objects of beauty will be provided.
All levels of experience are welcome.
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