calligraffiti
Sign in to savethumb|Calligraffiti at Port de Pêche de Sayada, February, 2017 Calligraffiti is an art form that combines calligraphy, typography, and graffiti. It can be classified as either abstract expressionism or abstract vandalism. It is defined as a visual art that integrates letters into compositions that attempt to communicate a broader message through writing that has been aesthetically altered to move beyond the literal meaning. Simply put, it is the conscious effort of making a word or group of words into a visual composition. As such it is meant to be both an aesthetic experience and provocative
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Vinony's link graph records 54 inbound references to calligraffiti, and connects out to Muhammad, Qur’an and Beirut.
Vinony files it under Calligraphy and Graffiti and unauthorised signage.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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Encyclopedic overview
61 sectionsContents
- Definition and brief history
- Characteristics
- Tools
- Calligraffiti in the Middle East and North Africa
- Arabic calligraphy as historical background
- Calligraffiti: calligraphy of the 21st century
- Public displays in the Middle East
- Publications
- Beyond the aesthetic
- Political uses
- Social uses
- Calligraffiti: between Middle East and West
- A search for identity
- Artists
- Brazil
- Algeria
- Australia
- China
- Colombia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Egypt
- Ecuador
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- India
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Lebanon
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Norway
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sudan
- Taiwan
- The Netherlands
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- Brazil
- United States
- Uncategorised
- Exhibitions
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
thumb|Calligraffiti at Port de Pêche de Sayada, February, 2017 Calligraffiti is an art form that combines calligraphy, typography, and graffiti. It can be classified as either abstract expressionism or abstract vandalism. It is defined as a visual art that integrates letters into compositions that attempt to communicate a broader message through writing that has been aesthetically altered to move beyond the literal meaning. Simply put, it is the conscious effort of making a word or group of words into a visual composition. As such it is meant to be both an aesthetic experience and provocative art—mixing tradition and precision with modern unbridled self-expression.
==Definition and brief history==
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