Calligraphic Traditions
Cultures where writing or carving characters was institutionalized as the highest art, so that reading a text and admiring it were never separate acts.
Dictionary entry
- Kufic 8th century onward / Style
Keeps the uprights short and draws the horizontals long, massing letters of straight strokes and right angles into a band of even height.
- Seal Engraving Qin dynasty– / Technique
East Asia's seal art: seal script carved in stone, composed in a few square centimeters through the reversal of red and white (zhuwen and baiwen). Participating in paintings as signature, it perfected design inside the small square.