Recognition of Origins of Plaster Decorations of Chohar-Soffehs in Dosiran Village (Fars Province) by Nadia Ashayeri, Behzad Vasigh

“…Its almost overwhelming appearance is the result of the interconnection and superimposition of different ornamental elements: calligraphic inscriptions, geometric lazo. The interior decorations are centered on the mihrab. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Visual Elements of the Stucco Ornaments in Soltaniyeh Monument, Sayyed Roknaddin Mausoleum and Sayyed Shamsaddin Mausoleum in Yazd by Farnoush Shamili, Zeinab Samadnezhadazar, yaser hamzavi

“…The art of stucco is a technique that could rely on decorations including abstract, geometric and calligraphic designs to leave various masterpieces in various arts, including architecture. …”
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Intersemiotic Analysis of Ekphrastic Painting "Destiny" by Mehdi Zamani by Mohammad Hatefi

“…Unlike multimodal (verbal/visual) texts, in which meaning is born from the interaction of different modes (text and image), there are always two independent texts in ekphrasis, each of which has its own complete meaning. By choosing a calligraphic painting by Mahdi Zaman, which was produced based on a poem that the painter attributed to Rumi, the present research put forward the following hypothesis based on the Functional Linguistics of Halliday (1976; 1994; Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014) and the Visual Grammar of Kress and Leeuwen (2006): Representing verbal meaning in the visual mode requires that any intersemiotic mechanism be done in the form of translating two separate grammars to each other.   …”
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My watercolor dialog 水彩故事 by Ng, Woon Lam

“…While I only had a short period of mentorship of slightly more than a year from him before his unfortunate passing in 1994, his experience and great understanding in color application and calligraphical brushwork in watercolor have very significant influence of my learning of watercolor art and comprehension of painting language. …”
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