One of the most interesting and least discussed anomalies in art is the painter who masters two completely different languages, such as figuration and abstraction. There are obvious cases, for ...

Engines Podcast The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3356: Calligraphic Art Episode: 3356 A form of decorative calligraphic art emerges from penmanship instruction at 19th century business colleges. Today, ...

Appraisal: Calligraphic Drawings, ca. 1885, from Vintage Cleveland. Check out Carl Crossman's appraisal of a pair of calligraphic drawings, ca. 1885, in Vintage Cleveland.

When I first encountered the work of the architect and painter Anthony Candido, it was moving—or rather, the dancers whose costumes he had splashed with black paint were moving across the floor in a ...

APPRAISER: These are calligraphic drawings that were done by professional drawing instructors who taught young ladies and schoolboys how to do this type of drawing that led into calligraphic writing ...