Ghostly Calligraphies
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Pasukan Siluman (Stealth Troops)
Imam Sucahyo
Painting - 106 x 149 cm Painting - 41.7 x 58.7 inch
€7,500
L'enfer de Dante / La Harpie
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
€900 €810
Explosion de Parallaxes
Samuel Favarica
Painting - 76 x 56 x 1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22 x 0.4 inch
€1,200
Sans titre
Charles Djerry
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 inch
€1,600
Oh no, it 's morning
Imam Sucahyo
Fine Art Drawings - 22.5 x 16.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.9 x 6.5 inch
€900
Série des Pin Up N°3
Mehdi Mirbagheri
Photography - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€2,500
Le jardin des délires, le paradis
Bruno Mallart
Print - 129 x 57 x 3 cm Print - 50.8 x 22.4 x 1.2 inch
€4,500
Nature morte à la feuille de figuier
Bernard Buffet
Painting - 54 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
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L'Enfer de Dante / Tête Renversée
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
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Saint Tropez vu de la citadelle
Bernard Buffet
Print - 58 x 75 x 1 cm Print - 22.8 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
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Sans titre #998
Geneviève Seillé
Fine Art Drawings - 81 x 71 x 5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.9 x 28 x 2 inch
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Untitled 16
Abdulrahman Naanseh
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 inch
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Don Quichotte et les moulins à vent
Bernard Buffet
Print - 75 x 55 x 1 cm Print - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch
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Ghostly Calligraphies
Though calligraphy is the art of writing, that art is measured by the interpretation of the beholder. Using the tools of a writer, whether that be the brush, ink, paint or pen the artist can create a connection between symbol and gesture. Unsurprisingly, calligraphy finds a home in the Abstract Expressionism movement that followed the end of World War II. The likes of Jasper Johns, Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler and Franz Kline sought to create deeper connections with the self and express what was reserved for the interior in a much more honest way. But that interior may be filled with an interest in the fantastic, plagued by grief or consumed by miserabilism. Though Kline is the artist from the movement of Abstract Expressionism most associated with the use of calligraphy, Bernard Buffet, featured here on Artsper, also began to convey the personality of his interior by 1947 – after war had ended. The Parisian-born Buffet tried to save money and used very little paint on his canvases. Therefore there was little variety in color, and mostly grey, black and green tones are seen in his portraits. The grey faces, wrinkled foreheads, thinning hair and contracted hands took on a crucified, ghostly appearance. Whilst the likes of Bruno Mallart modernizes his version of ghostly calligraphies by merging it with digital techniques.