What is calligraphy?
Calligraphy is the art of writing a script in such a way as to express the beauty of what is written in forming the letters themselves.
Calligraphy claims ancient roots in the first recorded forms of expression: cave images of our ancestors about 25,000–30,000 years ago. Finally, this form of image communication stylized around 3500 ° C. with the development of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Phoenicians followed around 1000 B.C. With one of the first alphabets - a completely different system of writing in that each symbol presented a sound rather than an idea or picture. The Fénic alphabet has been adopted and modified by many nations, including Greeks. The Romans raised the Greek alphabet and adapted it to suit Latin. It was the language of the omnipotent churches of the Middle Ages. One of their tasks was to commit the Word of God to paper by writing ancient texts in decorative volumes that the holy elite and royal rank read. The monks filled the script with a flourishing style that would add glory to the letters itself, aswould make the inscriptions worthy of the saints they communicate. The style was also economically narrow to save expensive paper. He became known as Gothic and was the original form of European calligraphy, as we think today.
In the middle of the 15th century, the printing printing expanded the Bible in the Gothic press, which presented the need for calligraphic skills of monks. Beautiful Penmanship became fashionable between the educated company for personal correspondence, formal business and social invitations. As the Renaissance rooted and flourished, as well as the art of calligraphy and the Italians contributed their own script, Italics . Then, like the press press earlier, the engraved copper imitated the new italic script and disappeared the interest in calligraphy again.
Until the 19th century, the flat pen that we associate with calligraphy was replaced by a round tip, which makes it difficult to produce the art lines needed for calligraphy. The art of calligraphy diesLo until the British artist and poet, William Morris (1834-1896) are interested in the lost art of beautiful Penmanship. Towards the end of his life, he re -introduced a pen with a flat edge and revived the art of calligraphy to his earlier glory.
Today, despite computers that can imitate any script with clarity, calligraphy is still alive and well. Calligraphy guilds can be found around the world, including the United States, Canada, Italy, the United Kingdom, Australia and Spain.