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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
www.kobatirth.org
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
INTRODUCTION
Calligraphy is the fine art of exquisite writing whereas painting is the creativity of mind and soul. It is the fine penmanship that epitomises an expression of elegance of beauty in the development of lines and strokes to give the language and script a symbolism and a functional meaning. The line drawn by a skilled calligrapher and a fine brush stroke of a painter is equally a true marvel of fluidity and sensitive creation, communicating the very action of the masters mind." Three definite combinations of gradations of variations between thick and thin, up and down strokes, ascenders and descenders that a calligrapher and painter produce through the medium of colour and form, can effect a sense of harmony and style which is unique to every written or drawn form. In short both, calligraphy and painting achieve a meaningful organised pattern of linear, formal and colourful structure for a visual language, may it be the script or a painting".
Calligraphy is as much an art as science'. We observe that the Indian Art and religions have laid adequate emphasis on the artistic evolution of writing from very ancient times. Right from the Indus Valley seals in the form of pictographs to the modern inventions of calligraphic fonts to be used in computers, there have been various periods, dynasties and cultures which bespeak of the great artistic and aesthetic achievement of the art of writing, the extant remains of which are available
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