Strange question

[morgaina]

I started a calligraphy unit with my students. We use calligraphy markers and after practice, we use faux parchment.
One girl had used her pen to do her name in a "tagging" style.
I asked her to just use the marker for calligraphy and she claimed "This IS calligraphy."

What do you think? If done on small scale with a calligraphy point/nib on paper, could tagging be considered calligraphy?

Comments

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

Tagging and graffiti are separate art forms.
Graffiti has been considered an art for years now. Art can be bad art or good art, and, of course, many degrees within that continuum.

If my student's work had not been so beautiful, it would not have caused me to stop and ponder that what she was doing was art. But it was well done.