{"id":79,"date":"2014-08-02T15:56:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T15:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2014-08-11T13:43:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T10:43:13","slug":"calligraphy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/case-studies\/calligraphy\/","title":{"rendered":"Calligraphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"userContent\" style=\"color: #000000\">Designed by:\u00a0<span class=\"userContent\">Sabah Arbilli<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"userContent\" style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Location and Spatial Context:<\/strong> Doha Corniche &#8211; It is a small scale open artwork in a popular and huge public space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Typology<\/strong>: It is abstract with a strong message.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"userContent\" style=\"color: #000000\">This artwork has a very interesting and intricate design. It is based <span class=\"userContent\">on a poem by H. E. Sheikh Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani<\/span>.\u00a0The meaning of the poem is &#8220;And amongst the sultans I stood out; as a lanneret floating over mountain peaks.\u201d This sculpture surely captured a lot of attention among the visitors of corniche. The sculpture is made of stainless steel and is 7.5m high including its base. It has added beauty and a topic of discussion in a popu<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">lar public place like corniche. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sabah Arbilli said, <span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;This<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000\"> piece celebrates culture, history, captivates and draws the viewers to its presence&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14\" style=\"width: 4265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/files\/2014\/07\/west_bay_doha-calligraphy_sculpture_sabah_arbilli_corniche.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-14 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/files\/2014\/07\/west_bay_doha-calligraphy_sculpture_sabah_arbilli_corniche.jpg\" alt=\"Calligraphy Art by Sabah Arbili\" width=\"4255\" height=\"2831\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/files\/2014\/07\/west_bay_doha-calligraphy_sculpture_sabah_arbilli_corniche.jpg 4255w, http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/files\/2014\/07\/west_bay_doha-calligraphy_sculpture_sabah_arbilli_corniche-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/files\/2014\/07\/west_bay_doha-calligraphy_sculpture_sabah_arbilli_corniche-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4255px) 100vw, 4255px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calligraphy at its location in Doha&#8217;s cornice<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designed by:\u00a0Sabah Arbilli Location and Spatial Context: Doha Corniche &#8211; It is a small scale open artwork in a popular and huge public space. Typology: It is abstract with a strong message. This artwork has a very interesting and intricate &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/case-studies\/calligraphy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":204,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions\/229"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}