INTRODUCTION TO NASTALIQ CALLIGRAPHY AND ITS APPLICATION IN CALLIGRAPHY PAINTING

The art of calligraphy, as one of the Islamic arts, has always been of special interest and attention to the rulers since its inception, and the artists of this art have enjoyed fame, status, and respect among the public and private. This art has had many ups and downs in different Islamic eras, and throughout their lives, artists have always invented new lines for designing and writing works. It is necessary that artists who have invented various types of lines with great seriousness and effort, and have made great efforts in this direction and left behind pure works, be introduced to the enthusiasts and the art of calligraphy artists, and the path of the rise and fall of calligraphy should be traced and introduced. ‏What is certain is that the visual language is older than the written language, the original origin of (calligraphy) should be sought in (image). "Pictography" or pictography is the mother of hieroglyphic writing, which itself is a pictographic script. In addition, cuneiform writing was also created from the process of abstracting visual symbols, which later transformed into alphabetic letters by taking sound symbols. The emergence of the alphabet in ancient languages follows the highest form of calligraphy. Let's refer to calligraphy, which means that type of writing style that has rules, harmony, beauty and proportion, and in which the specific rules and principles of the aesthetics of calligraphy are observed. But calligraphy, in its simple and general sense, is a combination of painting and calligraphy and refers to a method in which the audience is introduced to the combination and integration of modern and traditional art in today's world. In calligraphy, the artist seeks modernity in order to create a new form of art with creative techniques that, in this way, create a new form of art.