Practice Sheet

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Artist Aziz Efendi (Turkish, died 1934)

Culture Turkish

Title Practice Sheet (Karalama)

Date 1929

Medium Ink on paper

Dimensions Sight: 7 3/16 x 8 1/2 in. (18.3 x 21.6 cm)
Framed: 9 3/8 x 10 3/4 in. (23.8 x 27.3 cm)

Credit Line Gift of Muhittin Serin, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 95.45

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Calligraphers practice their art to gain proficiency in their craft. Sometimes their practice sheets become collector’s items. Here, one can see that the calligrapher, cAziz Efendi, has marked many of his letters with back-to-back rhomboids, the basic modules for determining proportioned script in Islamic calligraphic traditions.

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"Practice Sheet | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2024. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=95.45