PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY

No doubts that paintings possess a truly unique character. Traditional painting seldom follows the convention of central focus perspective or realistic portrayal, but gives the painter freedom on artistic conception, structural composition and method of expression so as to better express his subjective feelings. Such art form as painting has absorbed the best of many forms of art, like poetry and calligraphy. Hence it is often said that there is painting in poetry and poetry in painting. In the past, many great artists were also great poets and the calligraphers. The paintings itself not only can help us to understand the painter's ideas and emotions, but also provide decorative beauty to the painting. Arabic calligraphy was originally a tool for communication, but with time, it began to be used in architecture, decoration and coin design. Its evolution into these major roles was a reflection of the early Muslims’ need to avoid, as their beliefs required, figures and pictorials that were used as idols before Islam was established in the Arabian Peninsula.1010