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Graduation of 40 calligraphers within the Mohebat Qalam Festival

2021-11-20T21:22:14.184Z


Damascus, SANA- Forty calligraphers and calligraphers received continuous training for a whole week in the Thuluth and Nasta’liq scripts.


Damascus-SANA

Forty calligraphers and calligraphers received continuous training for a whole week in the Thuluth and Nasta'liq scripts. They were graduated within the activities of the Mohabbat Qalam Festival for Arab Calligraphy and Decoration, which was launched on the 14th of last month at the Arab Cultural Center in Abu Rummaneh.

The calligraphers were trained in the festival, which is organized by the House of Arabic Calligraphy and Arts Association in cooperation with the Directorate of Culture of Damascus, through two workshops announced several months before the launch of the festival.

The calligrapher Adham Al-Jaafari, who supervised the training of calligraphers, said in a statement to SANA, "We introduced the male and female students in the workshop to the Thuluth script in its regular and Jali branches, and he explained how to start writing the line and the methods and stages of completing the painting. Providing students with knowledge of writing methods and dealing with types of paper and inks from a technical point of view.

In turn, the calligrapher Anwar Hayali, the supervisor of the Nasta’liq calligraphy workshop, explained that the methodology of this calligraphy and the methods of writing the line with the specific measurements for each letter were introduced to achieve proportionality between letters and sentences on the selected line, with the definition of techniques for dealing with different types of inks and paper and how the draws for this calligraphy are, indicating that the workshop included writing Verses from the Holy Quran with letter connections and single letters.

The trainee, Abeer Al-Awdat, considered that learning calligraphy contributes to preserving this heritage art associated with our Arab civilizations and culture, indicating that such workshops help students to acquire new skills to reach the stage of creating distinctive visual and aesthetic paintings in calligraphy.

The trainee, Alaa Al-Din Al-Ghabra, considered that the practical workshops in the arts of Arabic calligraphy are important for the artist to reach the stage of improvisation in writing an instantaneous painting of calligraphy, in addition to exchanging opinions and experiences between scholars and professors and presenting the workshops’ output to the public.

Muhammad Samir Tahan, Secretary of the Society, explained that the festival culminates in the Society’s work in its first year and came with the unremitting efforts of the Society’s members and lovers of Arabic calligraphy, including calligraphers and scholars, with the support of the Damascus Culture Directorate and the Arab Cultural Center in Abu Rummaneh as a first step on a long road to restore the brilliance of the Levantine school of calligraphy. The Arab world and the dissemination of this culture linked to our cultural and civilizational identity among the various segments of society.

The Mohebat Qalam Festival for Calligraphy and Decoration continues until the end of this week and includes a symposium on decorative arts and an exhibition of works by young artists in the field of Arabic calligraphy in Abu Rummaneh Cultural in addition to two workshops in Naskh script and decorative arts over two days to culminate next Thursday with an exhibition that includes the products of the four workshops with an exhibition Default for all participating works from inside and outside Syria.

Source: sena

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