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calligraphy
The art of producing beautiful handwriting.
🌱Calligraphy can be seen today in event invitations, logo designs, and stone inscriptions. 🌳Kalli- is a Greek root meaning "beautiful," and "beautiful" in the case of calligraphy means artistic, stylized, and elegant. Calligraphy has existed in many cultures, including Indian, Persian, and Islamic cultures; Arabic puts a particularly high value on beautiful script, and in East Asia calligraphy has long been considered a major art. Calligraphers in the West use pens with wide nibs, with which they produce strokes of widely differing width within a single letter. hagiography 1、 Biography of saints.
2、 Biography that idealizes or idolizes.
🌱According to the new biography, which should really be called a hagiography, the former prime minister doesn't seem to have done anything small-minded or improper in his entire life. 🌳For those able to read, reading stories of the lives of the saints was a popular pastime for centuries, and books collecting short saints' biographies were best sellers. These often included terrifically colorful stories （about slaying dragons, magically traveling through space, etc.） that were perhaps a bit too good to be strictly true, and after finding God not one of them ever did a single thing that wasn't saintly—and some of them may not have actually existed. Still today, hagiographic accounts of the lives of politicians and pop-culture stars are being written, though there now seems to be a bigger audience for biographies that seek out the not-so-wholesome secrets of the person's life, sometimes even making up a few of them. choreography 1、 The art of composing and arranging dances and of representing them in symbolic notation.
2、 The movements by dancers in a performance.
🌱The reviews praised the show for its eye-catching choreography, calling it the best element of the whole musical. 🌳In ancient Greece, a choreia was a circular dance accompanied by a singing chorus. But the actual notating of dances by means of symbols didn't begin until the 17th or 18th century, when ballet developed into a complex art form in France. The choreographer of a major ballet, which might run to an hour or more, will always record his or her work in notation, though choreographing a five-minute segment for a TV talent show usually doesn't require any record at all. lithograph A picture made by printing from a flat surface （such as a smooth stone） prepared so that the ink will only stick to the design that will be printed.
🌱To make a lithograph, the artist first draws an image, in reverse, on a fine-grained limestone or aluminum plate. 🌳Lithos is Greek for "stone," and a stone surface has traditionally been involved in lithography, though a metal plate may take its place today. The lithographic process was invented around 1796 and soon became the main method of printing books and newspapers. Artists use lithography to produce prints （works intended to be sold in many copies）, and art lithographs sometimes resemble older types of prints, including etchings, engravings, and woodcuts. Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, and M. C. Escher are among the many artists who have used lithography to produce important original works. Today lithographic printing accounts for over 40% of all printing, packaging, and publishing.
🌱Calligraphy can be seen today in event invitations, logo designs, and stone inscriptions. 🌳Kalli- is a Greek root meaning "beautiful," and "beautiful" in the case of calligraphy means artistic, stylized, and elegant. Calligraphy has existed in many cultures, including Indian, Persian, and Islamic cultures; Arabic puts a particularly high value on beautiful script, and in East Asia calligraphy has long been considered a major art. Calligraphers in the West use pens with wide nibs, with which they produce strokes of widely differing width within a single letter. hagiography 1、 Biography of saints.
2、 Biography that idealizes or idolizes.
🌱According to the new biography, which should really be called a hagiography, the former prime minister doesn't seem to have done anything small-minded or improper in his entire life. 🌳For those able to read, reading stories of the lives of the saints was a popular pastime for centuries, and books collecting short saints' biographies were best sellers. These often included terrifically colorful stories （about slaying dragons, magically traveling through space, etc.） that were perhaps a bit too good to be strictly true, and after finding God not one of them ever did a single thing that wasn't saintly—and some of them may not have actually existed. Still today, hagiographic accounts of the lives of politicians and pop-culture stars are being written, though there now seems to be a bigger audience for biographies that seek out the not-so-wholesome secrets of the person's life, sometimes even making up a few of them. choreography 1、 The art of composing and arranging dances and of representing them in symbolic notation.
2、 The movements by dancers in a performance.
🌱The reviews praised the show for its eye-catching choreography, calling it the best element of the whole musical. 🌳In ancient Greece, a choreia was a circular dance accompanied by a singing chorus. But the actual notating of dances by means of symbols didn't begin until the 17th or 18th century, when ballet developed into a complex art form in France. The choreographer of a major ballet, which might run to an hour or more, will always record his or her work in notation, though choreographing a five-minute segment for a TV talent show usually doesn't require any record at all. lithograph A picture made by printing from a flat surface （such as a smooth stone） prepared so that the ink will only stick to the design that will be printed.
🌱To make a lithograph, the artist first draws an image, in reverse, on a fine-grained limestone or aluminum plate. 🌳Lithos is Greek for "stone," and a stone surface has traditionally been involved in lithography, though a metal plate may take its place today. The lithographic process was invented around 1796 and soon became the main method of printing books and newspapers. Artists use lithography to produce prints （works intended to be sold in many copies）, and art lithographs sometimes resemble older types of prints, including etchings, engravings, and woodcuts. Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, and M. C. Escher are among the many artists who have used lithography to produce important original works. Today lithographic printing accounts for over 40% of all printing, packaging, and publishing.
GRAPH comes from the Greek verb graphein, "to write." Thus, a biography is a written account of someone's life (See BIO,) a discography is a written list of recordings on disc (records or CDs), and a filmography is a list of motion pictures. But lots of uses of -graph and -graphy don't mean literally "writing" (as in autograph or paragraph, but instead something more like "recording," as in photography, seismograph, or graph itself.🌸