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MEDIEVAL ARMENIAN ART NOT ONLY TO ADMIRE BUT ALSO TO BE USED
hetq
19:06, September 11, 2012
One of the most prominent examples of Armenian medieval masters'
creative skill and imagination is the ornamental script.
Armenian masters have transformed the letters of our alphabet from
mere symbolic units into miniature masterpieces of ornamental art,
which vividly reflect our national, cultural and spiritual values. And
today these masterpieces of art are available to us thanks to the
recently published book "Armenian Ornamental Script".
The authors of the book, designer Armen Kyurkchyan and photographer
Hrair Hawk Khatcheryan, have collected in this book letters from
museums, archives and libraries across the world.
The author of the book Armen Kyurkchyan says that Armenian ornamental
script, various in its style, color solutions, and image forms,
shows the great love that Armenians have for the letter. We can find
standard geometric letters and intricately interwoven letters - the
evidence of an emerging calligraphy. We find letters that blossom
into flowers or take flight into birds or find higher life, with a
sudden burst of imagination, in human forms.
It is notable that Armenian illuminated manuscripts were decorated
not only by highly skilled masters and professionals, but also by
monks - sometimes even by their young students. These illustrations
have their own charm. They are very simple, almost naïve, in their
ingenious sincerity.
The book has its CD, which includes all the letters in the book,
in digital form. Now it will be already possible not only to admire
Armenian ornamental script, but also to apply it in various creative
purposes.
But the main purpose of the authors is to preserve Armenian medieval
ornamental script with the help of digitalization and to pass it to
the coming generations. Thanks to digitalization Armenian medieval
ornamental script is now available for everyone and everywhere.
Armenian Ornamental Script is the authors' second book. Their first
book was Armenian Ornamental Art, which was the result of 10 years
hard work. In the CD of the book there are more than 1000 digitized
pictures and their original photos.
These two books not only present Armenian medieval ornamental art
and ornamental script, but also remind us where we come from.
hetq
19:06, September 11, 2012
One of the most prominent examples of Armenian medieval masters'
creative skill and imagination is the ornamental script.
Armenian masters have transformed the letters of our alphabet from
mere symbolic units into miniature masterpieces of ornamental art,
which vividly reflect our national, cultural and spiritual values. And
today these masterpieces of art are available to us thanks to the
recently published book "Armenian Ornamental Script".
The authors of the book, designer Armen Kyurkchyan and photographer
Hrair Hawk Khatcheryan, have collected in this book letters from
museums, archives and libraries across the world.
The author of the book Armen Kyurkchyan says that Armenian ornamental
script, various in its style, color solutions, and image forms,
shows the great love that Armenians have for the letter. We can find
standard geometric letters and intricately interwoven letters - the
evidence of an emerging calligraphy. We find letters that blossom
into flowers or take flight into birds or find higher life, with a
sudden burst of imagination, in human forms.
It is notable that Armenian illuminated manuscripts were decorated
not only by highly skilled masters and professionals, but also by
monks - sometimes even by their young students. These illustrations
have their own charm. They are very simple, almost naïve, in their
ingenious sincerity.
The book has its CD, which includes all the letters in the book,
in digital form. Now it will be already possible not only to admire
Armenian ornamental script, but also to apply it in various creative
purposes.
But the main purpose of the authors is to preserve Armenian medieval
ornamental script with the help of digitalization and to pass it to
the coming generations. Thanks to digitalization Armenian medieval
ornamental script is now available for everyone and everywhere.
Armenian Ornamental Script is the authors' second book. Their first
book was Armenian Ornamental Art, which was the result of 10 years
hard work. In the CD of the book there are more than 1000 digitized
pictures and their original photos.
These two books not only present Armenian medieval ornamental art
and ornamental script, but also remind us where we come from.