Strange question
Jan. 6th, 2010 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morgainaI 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?
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?
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Date: 2010-01-08 03:57 am (UTC)Graffiti art seems so different. The stuff that has artistic merit is usually done on ugly walls, abandon buildings, railroad cars, underpasses. etc. Things that were blights on the landscape anyway.*
Tagging seems to be laid on many more structures, some of which weren't the eyesores as much. Maybe.... I'm going to pay more attention to the structures I see tagging on.
* Mexico seemed to be an exception to this, I saw graffiti and tagging on beautiful old adobe brick structures....painful.