Kaligrafi

Understanding Calligraphy
Understanding Calligraphy
The word calligraphy is derived from Greek, ie from kata kalo (kallos) meaning beautiful and graphia (graphẽ) the writing. Calligraphy is a beautiful writing produced by the hand. In general calligraphy can be interpreted as beautiful writing. In English, calligraphy is called by calligraphy and in Arabic it is called by khat.
Calligraphy or can be interpreted beautiful art, divided into three types of Latin or Roman calligraphy, Arabic calligraphy and Oriental calligraphy (Chinese, Japanese, Korean). In the nature of the expansion of culture, calligraphy can be seen through two aspects namely the calligraphy as a script that becomes the
symbol of writing letters or words, and the second aspect is the result as a result of the aesthetic process. The first aspect means calligraphy serves as a general writing that accommodates the idea of ​​the author. The second aspect means calligraphy related to aesthetics or beauty.
Calligraphy is divided into 2 major areas of East (East) which include West Asia / Middle East (Arab) and East Asia / Oriental (China and Japan) and Western (western) region located in Europe and America.
Chart of large area division of calligraphy deployment in the world
In eastern culture, calligraphy is a form of high value art, requiring training and high discipline that takes a long time to master it. The age of this Eastern calligraphic tradition has been centuries ago. Converted to the West, writing by hand is no secret of such a high level in the East. The beautiful writing tradition has been surpassed by the introduction of computers early on. As soon as the tradition of writing beautifully there is very little to do with it. Here are some.

Here is the work of Mawaddatul Karimah Lumajang
Manuscripts
The field of mushaf is the branch of musabaqah khattil qur'an which is emphasized in writing, afterwards the decoration around it. This manuscript is like the first sheet of the Qur'an in the letter of Al-Baqarah, so lafadz is surrounded by ornate ornaments. Lafadznya written with gelagas, can also with a small marker with a certain size black - lafadz not colorful - while ornaments use watercolors such as aga and mowilex as well.