Anthony Kadysewski Art Portfolio

Anthony Kadysewski
Art Portfolio

Award-winning calligrapher recognized for intricate illuminated works exhibited in over 30 juried and invitational shows. Recipient of 20 top distinctions, including Best of Show and multiple first-place awards, with pieces honored across categories spanning fine calligraphy, book arts, and decorative design.

336 Four Seasons Drive
Beech Mountain Lakes
Drums, PA 18222

Cellphone: 570-578-9223
Personal Email: TKadysewski@me.com
Business Email: TKadysewski@FixturesCloseUp.com

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Calligraphy Art – The Wages of Sin

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BACKSTORY: An Art Portfolio (sometimes referred to as a lookbook) is an edited collection of an artist’s best artwork intended to showcase their style or method of work. A portfolio is used by artists to show employers their versatility by showing different samples of current work. Typically, the work reflects an artist’s best work or a depth in one specific area of work.

Historically, portfolios were printed out and placed into a book. With the increased use of the internet and email, however, there are now websites that host online art portfolios that are available to a wider audience. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

BACKSTORY: Calligraphy (from Ancient Greek καλλιγραφία (kalligraphía) ‘beautiful writing‘) is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a pen, ink brush, or other writing instruments.^[1]^: 17 Contemporary calligraphic practice can be defined as “the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious, and skillful manner”.^[1]^: 18

In East Asia and the Islamic world, where written forms allow for greater flexibility, calligraphy is regarded as a significant art form, and the form it takes may be affected by the meaning of the text or the individual words.

Modern Western calligraphy ranges from functional inscriptions and designs to fine-art pieces where the legibility of letters varies.^[1]^{[page needed]} Classical calligraphy differs from type design and non-classical hand-lettering, though a calligrapher may practice both.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Western calligraphy continues to flourish in the forms of wedding invitations and event invitations, font design and typography, original hand-lettered logo design, religious art, announcements, graphic design and commissioned calligraphic art, cut stone inscriptions, and memorial documents. It is also used for props, moving images for film and television, testimonials, birth and death certificates, maps, and other written works.^[6]^[7]

The principal tools for a calligrapher are the penand the brush. The pens used in calligraphy can have nibs that may be flat, round, or pointed.^[8]^[9]^[10]For decorative purposes, multi-nibbed pens (steel brushes) can be used. However, works have also been created with felt-tip and ballpoint pens, although these works do not employ angled lines. There are certain styles of calligraphy, such as Gothic script, that require a stub nib pen. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

BACKSTORY: Blackletter (sometimes black letter or black-letter), also known as Gothic script, Gothic minuscule or Gothic type, was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 until the 17th century.^[1] It continued to be commonly used for Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish until the 1870s,^[2] Finnish until the turn of the 20th century,^[3] Latvian until the 1930s,^[4]and for the German language until the 1940s, when Adolf Hitler officially discontinued it in 1941.^[5] Fraktur is a notable script of this type, and sometimes the entire group of blackletter faces is referred to as Fraktur. Blackletter is sometimes referred to as Old English, but it is not to be confused with the Old English language, which predates blackletter by many centuries and was written in the insular script or in Futhorc. Along with Italic type and Roman type, blackletter served as one of the major typefaces in the history of Western typography. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

BACKSTORY: Uncial is a majuscule^[1] script (written entirely in capital letters) commonly used from the 4th to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes.^[2]Uncial letters were used to write Greek and Latin, as well as Gothic, and are the current style for Coptic and Nobiin.

As the script evolved over the centuries, the characters became more complex. Specifically, around AD 600, flourishes and exaggerations of the basic strokes began to appear in more manuscripts. Ascenders and descenders were the first major alterations, followed by twists of the tool in the basic stroke and overlapping. By the time the more compact minuscule scripts arose circa AD 800, some of the evolved uncial styles formed the basis for these simplified, smaller scripts. There are over 500 surviving copies of uncial script; by far the larger number of these predate the Carolingian Renaissance. Uncial was still used, particularly for copies of the Bible, until around the 10th century outside of Ireland. The insular variant of uncial remained the standard script used to write the Irish languageuntil the middle of the 20th century.^[5] (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

BACKSTORY: The term Half-Uncial or Semi-Uncial was first deployed by Scipione Maffei, Istoria diplomatica (Mantua, 1727);^[7] he used it to distinguish what seemed like a cut-down version of uncial in the famous Codex Basilicanus of Hilary, which contains sections in each of the two types of script. The terminology was continued in the mid-18th century by René Prosper Tassin and Charles François Toustain.

Despite the common and well-fixed usage, half-uncial is a poor name to the extent that it suggests some organic debt to regular uncial, though both types share features inherited from their ancient source, capitalis rustica. ^[8]

It was first used around the 3rd century (if we don’t consider its earliest example a transitional variant of the rustic script, as Leonard Boyle did) and remained in use until the end of the 8th century. The early forms of half-uncial were used for pagan authors and Roman legal writing, while in the 6th century the script came to be used in Africa and Europe (but not as often in insular centres) to transcribe Christian texts.

Half-uncial was brought to Ireland in the 5th century, and from there to England in the 7th century. In England, it was used to create the Old English Latin alphabet in the 8th century. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

BACKSTORY: An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as bordersand miniature illustrations. Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers and liturgical books such as psalters and courtly literature, the practice continued into secular texts from the 13th century onward and typically include proclamations, enrolled bills, laws, charters, inventories, and deeds.^[1]^[2]

The earliest surviving illuminated manuscripts are a small number from late antiquity, and date from between 400 and 600 CE. Examples include the Vergilius Romanus, Vergilius Vaticanus, and the Rossano Gospels.^[3] The majority of extant manuscripts are from the Middle Ages, although many survive from the Renaissance. While Islamic manuscriptscan also be called illuminated and use essentially the same techniques, comparable Far Eastern and Mesoamerican works are described as painted.^[4]

Most manuscripts, illuminated or not, were written on parchment until the 2nd century BCE,^[5] when a more refined material called vellum, made from stretched calf skin, was supposedly introduced by King Eumenes II of Pergamum. This gradually became the standard for luxury illuminated manuscripts,^[6] although modern scholars are often reluctant to distinguish between parchment and vellum, and the skins of various animals might be used. The pages were then normally bound into codices (singular: codex), that is the usual modern book format, although sometimes the older scroll format was used, for various reasons. A very few illuminated fragments also survive on papyrus. Books ranged in size from ones smaller than a modern paperback, such as the pocket gospel, to very large ones such as choirbooks for choirs to sing from, and Atlantic bibles, requiring more than one person to lift them.^[7]

Paper manuscripts appeared during the Late Middle Ages. The untypically early 11th century Missal of Silos is from Spain, near to Muslim paper manufacturing centres in Al-Andalus. Textual manuscripts on paper become increasingly common, but the more expensive parchment was mostly used for illuminated manuscripts until the end of the period. Very early printed books left spaces for red text, known as rubrics, miniature illustrations and illuminated initials, all of which would have been added later by hand. Drawings in the margins (known as marginalia) would also allow scribes to add their own notes, diagrams, translations, and even comic flourishes.^[8]

The introduction of printing rapidly led to the decline of illumination. Illuminated manuscripts continued to be produced in the early 16th century but in much smaller numbers, mostly for the very wealthy. They are among the most common items to survive from the Middle Ages; many thousands survive. They are also the best surviving specimens of medieval painting, and the best preserved. Indeed, for many areas and time periods, they are the only surviving examples of painting. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

BACKSTORY: In a written or published work, an initial^[a] is a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. The word is ultimately derived from the Latininitiālis, which means of the beginning. An initial is often several lines in height, and, in older books or manuscripts, may take the form of an inhabited or historiated initial. There are certain important initials, such as the Beatus initial, or B, of Beatus vir…at the opening of Psalm 1 at the start of a vulgate Latin. These specific initials in an illuminated manuscript were also called initia(singular: initium).

An Initial is also referred to as a versal, drop capital (or drop cap or drop), initial capital (or initial cap, initcapital, initcap or init), or titling capital. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

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How the Sphere Encouraged Me In a Vision

How the Sphere
Encouraged Me In a Vision

Source: Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions
Author: Edwin A Abbott, 1884
Script Style: Uncial / Half Uncial Approx. 760 Words Body Copy
Versal Letters: None
Title: Uncial
Illumination: Stipple Illumination
Materials: Imported Parchment Paper, No Mat, Metal Frame
Size: 22-1/2 x 37-3/4” WxH
[ √ ] 3 Photos Available – Art Portfolio: Anthony Kadysewski

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Their Prayers Shall Be In The Work of Their Craft

Their Prayers Shall Be
In The Work of Their Craft

Best of Two-Dimensional Decorative Design
Market House Gallery, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, March 1983

Source: Attributed to Monastic Guide, Rule of St Benedict
Author: Saint Benedict, circa 516 AD
Script Style: None
Versal Letter: None
Title: Double-Stroke Uncials, Stipple Infill
Illumination: Celtic Knot Border Illumination
Materials: Imported Parchment Paper, No Mat, Metal Frame
Size: 25-1/4 x 38-3/4 WxH
[ √ ] 3 Photos Available – Art Portfolio: Anthony Kadysewski

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In Moria, In Khazad-Dum

First Award Multimedia,
Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen Statewide Exhibit, 1978

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954
Script Style: Uncial Approx. 290 Words Body Copy
Versal Letter: Illuminated Ornate Serifed Capital T
Title: Uncial
Illumination: Celtic Knotwork Illumination
Materials: Imported Parchment Paper, No Mat, Gold Metal Frame
Size: 12-1/4 x 22-1/4 WxH
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Mors Iabrochii, The Jabberwocky, Der Jammerwoch

Mors Iabrochii
The Jabberwocky
Der Jammerwoch

Multilingual Latin, English, and German Language
Best of Show and Best of Calligraphy
Lebanon Valley Arts Festival, Annville, Pennsylvania, April 1983

Source: The Annotated Alice; Alice Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Author: Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner
German Translation by Robert Scott
Latin Translation by A.A. Vansittart
from The Life and Letters of Lewis Caroll
by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
Script Style: Uncial / Half Uncial Approx. 670 Words Body Copy
Versal Letter: None
Title: Illuminated Uncial
Illumination: Celtic Knotwork Border,
Signed: AJK Scriptsit 1980
Materials: Imported Parchment Paper, Matted, Metal Frame
Size: 41-1/4 x 28-1/4 WxH
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Excrementum Vincit Cerebellum

Excrementum Vincit Cerebellum
(Latin)

Bullshit Beats Brains (English)
Excrement Conquers The Brains
Filth Overcomes The Brains

Script Style: None
Illumination: Block Stippled Bulls Head
Versal Letter: None
Title: Double Stroke Uncial and Half Uncial, Stipple Infill
Materials: European Parchment Paper, Metal Frame
Special: Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen, Juried Member Seal
Size: 29-1/4 x 11-1/2WxH
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Monastic Harmony

Source: The Rule of Saint Benedict, circa 516 AD
Author: Saint Benedict
Script Style: German Blackletter Approx. 150 Words Body Copy
Illumination: Stippled Vine Border,
Versal Letter: Illuminated Uncial Versal Capital, Stipple Infill
Title: Double Stroked German Blackletter
Signed: AJK Scripsit 1983
Materials: European Parchment Paper, Metal Frame
Size: 17-3/4 x 25-3/4 WxH
[ √ ] 3 Photos Available – Art Portfolio: Anthony Kadysewski

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The Wages of Sin

Award for Excellence
21st Annual Visual Arts Competition, University of Scranton, 1982

Source: The High Place
Author: James Branch Cabell, 1919
Script Style: German Blackletter Approx. 750 Words Body Copy
Illumination: Dragon Motif Illuminated Border, Stipple Infill
Versal Letter: None
Title: Illuminated Uncial, Stipple Infill
Materials: European Parchment Paper, Metal Frame
Size: 35-3/4 x 26-3/4 WxH
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Babylonian Kudurru Boundary Curse

Source: British Museum Translation of
Babylonian Kudurru Inscription, circa 1,000 BC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudurru

Script Style: Uncial and Half Uncial, 425 Words Body Copy
Illumination: Intricate Celtic Interlace Herringbone Pattern
Versal Letters: Uncial
Materials: European Parchment Paper, Wood Frame, Matted
Size: 10 x 16 WxH
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Sojourning Guest Welcome

Script Style: German Blackletter
Illumination: Intricate Leafy Vine
Versal Letter: Uncial Approx. 140 Words Body Copy
Materials: European Parchment Paper, 3/4″ Wood Frame
Size: 16-1/2″ x 26-1/2″ WxH
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Graphic Art

SCORP Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan Critical Path Diagram 1

Art Portfolio – SCORP Critical Path Diagram

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BACKSTORY: Architectural rendering, architectural illustration, or architectural visualization (often abbreviated to archviz or ArchViz) is the art of creating three-dimensional images or animations showing the attributes of a proposed architectural design.

Architectural renderings are often categorized into 3 sub-types: Exterior Renderings, Interior Renderings, and Aerial Renderings.

Exterior renderings are defined as images where the vantage point or viewing angle is located outside of the building, while interior renderings are defined as images where the vantage point or viewing angle is located inside of the building. Aerial renderings are similar to exterior renderings, however, their viewing angle is located outside and above the building, looking down, usually at an angle.^[2] (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

BACKSTORY: In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan is a technical drawing to scale, showing a view from above, of the relationships between rooms, spaces, traffic patterns, and other physical features at one level of a structure.

Dimensions are usually drawn between the walls to specify room sizes and wall lengths. Floor plans may also include details of fixtures like sinks, water heaters, furnaces, etc. Floor plans may include notes for construction to specify finishes, construction methods, or symbols for electrical items.

It is also called a plan which is a measured plane typically projected at the floor height of 4 ft (1.2 m), as opposed to an elevation which is a measured plane projected from the side of a building, along its height, or a section or cross section where a building is cut along an axis to reveal the interior structure. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

BACKSTORY: The program evaluation and review technique(PERT) is a statistical tool used in project management, which was designed to analyze and represent the tasks involved in completing a given project.

PERT was originally developed by Charles E. Clark for the United States Navy in 1958; it is commonly used in conjunction with the Critical Path Method(CPM), which was also introduced in 1958.^[1]

PERT is a method of analyzing the tasks involved in completing a project, especially the time needed to complete each task, and to identify the minimum time needed to complete the total project. It incorporates uncertainty by making it possible to schedule a project while not knowing precisely the details and durations of all the activities. It is more event-oriented than start- and completion-oriented, and is used more for projects where time is the major constraint rather than cost. It is applied to very large-scale, one-time, complex, non-routine infrastructure projects, as well as R&D projects.

PERT offers a management tool,^[2]^: 497 which relies “on arrow and node diagrams of activities and events: arrows represent the activities or work necessary to reach the events or nodes that indicate each completed phase of the total project.”^[3]

PERT and CPM are complementary tools, because “CPM employs one time estimation and one cost estimation for each activity; PERT may utilize three time estimates (optimistic, expected, and pessimistic) and no costs for each activity. Although these are distinct differences, the term PERT is applied increasingly to all critical path scheduling.”^[3] (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

BACKSTORY: The critical path method (CPM), or critical path analysis(CPA), is an algorithm for scheduling a set of project activities.^[1] A critical path is determined by identifying the longest stretch of dependent activities and measuring the time^[2] required to complete them from start to finish. It is commonly used in conjunction with the program evaluation and review technique(PERT).

The CPM is a project-modeling technique developed in the late 1950s by Morgan R. Walker of DuPont and James E. Kelley Jr. of Remington Rand.^[3] Kelley and Walker related their memories of the development of CPM in 1989.^[4] Kelley attributed the term “critical path” to the developers of the PERT, which was developed at about the same time by Booz Allen Hamilton and the U.S. Navy.^[5] The precursors of what came to be known as critical path were developed and put into practice by DuPont between 1940 and 1943 and contributed to the success of the Manhattan Project.^[6]

Critical path analysis is commonly used with all forms of projects, including construction, aerospace and defense, software development, research projects, product development, engineering, and plant maintenance, among others. Any project with interdependent activities can apply this method of mathematical analysis. CPM was used for the first time in 1966 for the major skyscraper development of constructing the former World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City. Although the original CPM program and approach is no longer used,^[7] the term is generally applied to any approach used to analyze a project network logic diagram. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

BACKSTORY: A GIS software program is a computer program to support the use of a geographic information system, providing the ability to create, store, manage, query, analyze, and visualize geographic data, that is, data representing phenomena for which location is important.^[1]^[2]^[3] The GIS software industry encompasses a broad range of commercial and open-source products that provide some or all of these capabilities within various information technology architectures.^[4]

Perhaps the first general-purpose software that provided a range of GIS functionality was the Synagraphic Mapping Package (SYMAP), developed by Howard T. Fisher and others at the nascent Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis starting in 1965. While not a true full-range GIS program, it included some basic mapping and analysis functions, and was freely available to other users.^[6] Through the 1970s, the Harvard Lab continued to develop and publish other packages focused on automating specific operations, such as SYMVU (3-D surface visualization), CALFORM (choropleth maps), POLYVRT (topological vector data management), WHIRLPOOL (vector overlay), GRID and IMGRID (raster data management), and others. During the late 1970s, several of these modules were brought together into Odyssey, one of the first commercial complete GIS programs, released in 1980. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

BACKSTORY: IBM mainframes are large computer systems produced by IBM since 1952. During the 1960s and 1970s, IBM dominated the computer market with the 7000 series and the later System/360, followed by the System/370. Current mainframe computers in IBM’s line of business computers are developments of the basic design of the System/360. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

BACKSTORY: A line printer prints one entire line of text before advancing to another line.^[1] Most early line printers were impact printers.

Line printers are mostly associated with unit record equipment and the early days of digital computing, but the technology is still in use. Print speeds of 600 lines per minute^[2] (approximately 10 pages per minute) were achieved in the 1950s, later increasing to as much as 1200 lpm. Line printers print a complete line at a time and have speeds in the range of 150 to 2500 lines per minute.

Some types of impact line printers are drum printers, band-printers, and chain printers. Non-impact technologies have also been used, e.g., thermal line printers were popular in the 1970s and 1980s,^[3] some inkjet and laser printers produce output a line or a page at a time. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

BACKSTORY: Contour Map – A contour line (also isoline, isopleth, isoquant or isarithm) of a function of two variables is a curve along which the function has a constant value, so that the curve joins points of equal value.^[1]^[2] It is a plane section of the three-dimensional graph of the function $f(x,y)$ parallel to the $(x,y)$ -plane. More generally, a contour line for a function of two variables is a curve connecting points where the function has the same particular value.^[2]

In cartography, a contour line (often just called a “contour”) joins points of equal elevation (height) above a given level, such as mean sea level.^[3] A contour map is a map illustrated with contour lines, for example a topographic map, which thus shows valleys and hills, and the steepness or gentleness of slopes.^[4]The contour interval of a contour map is the difference in elevation between successive contour lines.^[5]

The gradient of the function is always perpendicular to the contour lines. When the lines are close together the magnitude of the gradient is large: the variation is steep. A level setis a generalization of a contour line for functions of any number of variables.

Contour lines are curved, straight or a mixture of both lines on a map describing the intersection of a real or hypothetical surface with one or more horizontal planes. The configuration of these contours allows map readers to infer the relative gradient of a parameter and estimate that parameter at specific places. Contour lines may be either traced on a visible three-dimensional model of the surface, as when a photogrammetrist viewing a stereo-model plots elevation contours, or interpolated from the estimated surface elevations, as when a computer program threads contours through a network of observation points of area centroids. In the latter case, the method of interpolation affects the reliability of individual isolines and their portrayal of slope, pits and peaks.^[6] (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

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East Donegal Township Park Design

Architectural Plan Rendering

For: East Donegal Township Parks Commission
Designers: Thomas Glowacki, Anthony J. Kadysewski, Circa 1975
Materials: Photographic Mylar Transparency of Original Drawing, Mat, Metal Frame
Size: 29-1/4 x 13-3/4 WxH
[ √ ] 3 Photos Available – Art Portfolio: Anthony Kadysewski

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SCORP Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan Critical Path Diagram

SCORP Demand Analysis Procedure
PERT / CPM

Project Evaluation & Review Technique / Critical Path Method Diagram

For: Pa. State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan
Project Head: Dr. Francis Feguson, PSU, Regional Planning Program
Designer: Anthony J. Kadysewski, Circa 1975
Style: PERT/CPM, Project Evaluation and Review Technique, CPM Critical Path Method Diagram
Materials: Photographic Mylar Transparency of Original Drawing, Mat, Metal Frame
Size: 29-1/4 x 15-1/2 WxH
[ √ ] 4 Photos Available – Art Portfolio: Anthony Kadysewski

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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Elderly Population Density
SYMAP Synagraphic Computer Maps

GIS Geographic Information System
Conformant Map and Contour Map, Harrisburg SMSA Census Tracts, 1970 Census

SYMAPs inducted to the Library of Congress
National Geography and Map Division

” Butler Township Man’s Early Computer Maps Headed for Library of Congress ”
” Library of Congress FixturesCloseUp Author SYMAP Induction “

For: Harrisburg Pa, Housing Authority
Application: Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics SYMAP Program
Project Head: Dr. Francis Feguson, PSU, Regional Planning Program
Programming: Anthony J. Kadysewski, Circa 1975
Style: IBM 360 Mainframe Line Printer Character Overprint Density Map:
Tile Printout in sections, sections then mosaic tile assembled,
and the large finished map photographically reduced
Materials: Mylar Photographic Transparency, B&W Print, Metal Frame
Size: 20-3/4 x 36-1/4 WxH
[ √ ] 4 Photos Available, 2 Conformant, 2 Contour – Art Portfolio: Anthony Kadysewski

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