SPATIAL CONTRAST OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ICONIC COMPOSITIONS IN THE THULUTH CALLIGRAPHY

Abstract

Arabic calligraphy has received a great development after its function was reading
and writing to the aesthetic and semantic enrichment through the calligrapher's
contact with plastic experiments, So the Arabic calligraphy start his development
by leaving the formations of the geometric nature of the Arabic calligraphy, than
the Arabic calligraphy turned to the production of bodies that simulate what is in
the external reality called iconic compositions, leading to creativity and
innovation, Which was characterized by a variety of characteristics helped the
organizational structure of the body shape through variation in the distribution of
the text to suit the composition and breadth of body measurements of structural
letters, Therefore, the iconic compositions, especially the thuluth calligraphy , are
a criterion for the ability of a good calligrapher on the one hand, and the
emergence of a calligrapher's taste and aesthetics that pushed him to employ
Arabic calligraphy in various design bodies on the other hand, Hence, the
researcher identified the research problem by studying the spatial variation of the
properties of iconic compositions according to the following questions: