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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Surah 110 – The Divine Support سورة النصر
The text in this piece is the entire 110th book of the Qur’an. It is part of my ongoing project ‘The Quran for Solidarity‘. إن النص في هذه القطعة هو السورة 110 كاملةً من القراّن الكريم. وهي جزء من مشروعي … Continue reading →
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Surah 99 – The Earthquake سورة الزلزلة
This piece is part of my recent experiments with color, employing complimentary shades of red and green and rules of space whereby aesthetically the space left white should exactly equal the amount of space which is colored. The text in … Continue reading →
Posted in Color, Islamic الإسلامية, Projects مشاريع
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Surah 105 – The Elephant سورة الفيل
This piece is part of my recent experiments with color, in this case using just my favorite green, the color of Islam. The elephant is formed entirely using only Arabic calligraphy in the ornamental Diwani Jali script. The text in … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals الحيوانات, Islamic الإسلامية, Projects مشاريع
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Tagged Arabic, Arabic Calligraphy, Arabic script, art, barbee, caligraphie, calligraphie, Calligraphy, color of islam, colour calligraphy, Diwani, Diwani Jali, Elephant, everitte, Everitte Barbee, fine art, green elephant, ink, Islam, Islamic Art, Israel, kaligrafi, Middle East, Muslim, pen and ink, print, Quran, script, sura al-fil, surah 105, surat al-fil, the elephant, typography, فن, فنون جميلة, الخط السلطان, الديواني الجلي, خط, خط عربي, ديواني, سورة الفيل
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