Ghostly Calligraphies
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Self Portrait of a Southern Man
Grégoire Devin
Painting - 72.9 x 59.9 x 4.6 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1.8 inch
$5,400
Waiting for the Sun
Grégoire Devin
Painting - 72.9 x 59.9 x 4.6 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1.8 inch
$5,400
La révolution Française (Tuileries)
Bernard Buffet
Print - 65 x 107 x 0.2 cm Print - 25.6 x 42.1 x 0.1 inch
$8,372
Plage de Saint-Cast
Bernard Buffet
Painting - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$200,929
Everything Under The Sky (The Saved)
Faile
Print - 48 x 32 x 0.05 cm Print - 18.9 x 12.6 x 0 inch
$1,228
Reflections – Untitled VI
David Paul Kay
Sculpture - 38.1 x 22.8 x 22.8 cm Sculpture - 15 x 9 x 9 inch
$3,349
Still Life with Flowers - Orange Bkgrd (After)
Bernard Buffet
Print - 27.3 x 21 x 0.6 cm Print - 10.75 x 8.25 x 0.25 inch
$495
L'Enfer de Dante / Lucifer
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,005
L'Enfer de Dante / Virgile
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,005
Sunset Over the Kingdom
Grégoire Devin
Painting - 180.3 x 180.3 x 5.1 cm Painting - 71 x 71 x 2 inch
$17,400
L'Enfer de Dante / Figure Éclatée
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,005
Nous attaquerons à l'aube
Bruno Mallart
Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 22 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.7 x 8.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,116
L'Enfer de Dante / Dante
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,005
L'Enfer de Dante / Angélo
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,005
Les gardiens
Evelyne Postic
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 inch
$1,842
L'Enfer de Dante / Damné ricanant
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,005
L'Enfer de Dante / Deux Damnés
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,005
Or Kadmon-Bosco Zafferano 4/10
Tobia Ravà
Print - 55 x 70 x 3 cm Print - 21.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,043
Le clocher de Sauzon
Bernard Buffet
Print - 56.5 x 76.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 22.2 x 30.1 x 0.1 inch
$3,237
Salon des cent d'après Mucha
Artiste Ouvrier
Painting - 61 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,009
Carafe, coupe de fruits et assiette
Bernard Buffet
Print - 58.8 x 73 x 0.2 cm Print - 23.1 x 28.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,716
Radici dell'Albero della Vita 6/10
Tobia Ravà
Print - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Print - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,009
All is Full of Love
Grégoire Devin
Sculpture - 18.9 x 11.4 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.4 x 4.5 x 3.9 inch
$4,200
Letter Dancers 200
Mehdi Mirbagheri
Painting - 120 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$6,698
Interprétation du Cycle de Reproduction et du Flux Migratoire
Samuel Favarica
Print - 90 x 90 x 1 cm Print - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,233
N°1312 - from the collection Neveshteh
Mehdi Mirbagheri
Print - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Print - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,349
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.