Calligraphy is an elegant, gentle, noble and solemn art. Qing Liu Xizai's Outline of Art Books says: "A book is like a book, like its learning, like its talent, like its ambition. In short, just like a person. " "Tessa's book is warm and mellow, Xiong Jun's book is Shen Yi, the abnormal book is degenerate, and the book of talented people is beautiful." "Xuanhe Pu Shu" records: "Lu is awe-inspiring, but loyal to the sun and the moon, knowing the height of heaven and earth, so its spirit is unique and inclusive. Loyal martyrs, moral gentlemen and strict respect make people awe and love. " Calligraphy not only shows temperament, but also shows character. Therefore, people who pursue the art of calligraphy should maintain a serious and pious attitude. "Books draw for the heart", first of all, calligraphy works are art, not commodities, but the crystallization of calligraphers' personality cultivation. We can't equate calligraphy creation or research with commodities. Although we don't deny that calligraphy works have their artistic value and collection economic value, once they are regarded as commodities, creators will lose their cautious mentality, haggle over gains and losses, become slaves of fame and fortune, and will inevitably cater to them and go to the opposite side of pursuing artistic perfection. It is tantamount to abandoning and polluting your personality and character. Secondly, calligraphy is an art form to show the feelings and minds of calligraphers, to show personal elegance and taste, and to cultivate the mood and artistic conception of appreciators, rather than a means to pursue fame and fortune. It is not difficult to see that many people who call themselves calligraphers or famous calligraphers today are speculating when they are not sure how different calligraphy is from writing. Because the reason for tempting them is simple: calligraphers can be famous, and famous calligraphers can sell their works for money. Including some administrative leaders, celebrities, and even the families and children of celebrities. Close relationship with calligraphers. However, from China, who knows Chinese characters, can touch the brush and has other unique conditions, he suddenly became a "calligrapher" and was "famous", which is the sorrow of calligraphy.
Calligraphy is not a small skill, nor can it be achieved overnight. The success of calligraphers should be diligent study and practice of techniques; Have the ability to appreciate, be well informed and have a keen eye for judging advantages and disadvantages; Familiar with the historical evolution of calligraphy, understand and experience the calligraphy of past dynasties; Knowledge and mastery of related disciplines, etc. I don't know the history of writing, the evolution of calligraphy style, the birth, change and inheritance of calligraphy in past dynasties, the theory of calligraphy and many basic common sense and ancient books, so it is doubtful to call myself a calligrapher. You don't have to be proficient in this, but it is necessary to have a general understanding. Because, at present, there are too many distractions, which are highlighted by the media as stunts in the world, so that those who are eager to achieve success do their best to impress the audience by "turning over books", "writing books" and "the best book in the world". These acrobatics will be regarded as China's calligraphy by people who don't know.
Innovation is based on a deep understanding and grasp of tradition. Some beginners can't stand loneliness and long-term hard work In order to become famous overnight, they are ingenious and engage in some crooked ways, which is absolutely blasphemous to the art of calligraphy. For this reason, a real calligrapher should have pure personality beauty, mark his noble character through real calligraphy art, guide people to pursue goodness and beauty with excellent works, and sincerely inspire people to appreciate artistic beauty and be edified from it. In other words, it is to serve the society and be recognized by society. Therefore, it has also perfected and realized its own value in the pursuit of art. The so-called "quiet and upright cultivation", as a whole life accomplishment, lies in the word "quiet". To do anything, you need to calm down first, learn Chinese characters and write books. You can calm down so as not to be impetuous, speculate with your heart and run with your strength. Righteousness is the correctness of personality and behavior, which has the significance of moral norms. Wang Xizhi, the so-called "one violence and ten cold, no one can be spared", and even the famous artists in the Tang and Song Dynasties, which one didn't succeed after decades of hard training and perseverance?
Calligraphy artists should be rooted in traditional culture.
Every nation in the civilized era has its own characters, but China's Chinese writing has become a little art, and the movement rhythm of lines has been shaped into "potential", showing "bone strength"; The ink color is dripping with "rhyme" and "qi"; Through the flowing changes of bone potential and charm, the author wrote the rhythm of the author's emotion. The rigidity of yin and yang of personality, the integrity of personality, the pursuit of ideals, the ups and downs of life and so on. They all express their thoughts and feelings with artistic expressive lines, profound skill and skillful skills. Therefore, through the formal factors of calligraphy lines, people's culture is often presented.
Calligraphy is a creative activity with the main content of expressing the calligrapher's spiritual world, especially the consciousness of formal beauty, so it consciously or unconsciously flows out the essence of human beings in social life and becomes the materialized form of its spiritual factors such as thought, character, temperament, morality, will, emotion and ideal. In particular, it condenses the wisdom of countless ancient intellectuals for thousands of years and is the accumulation of traditional humanistic spirit. Calligraphy, as a traditional art with a long history, carries rich traditional cultural information.
Traditional culture is a very broad concept, including religion, philosophy, literature, politics, art, family and society. From the perspective of cultural value, there are life value, natural value, moral value, knowledge value and aesthetic value. From the basic characteristics of culture, it is manifested in its unity, non-religion (humanistic spirit), pan-morality, moderation and peace. It has a vast territory and a long history. There is no need to lay out traditional culture here, but to explore how a calligrapher should face tradition and inherit the beneficial elements in traditional culture. It should be said that a high-level calligrapher, first of all, is familiar with traditional culture, or there are more experts or researchers in a certain category of traditional culture. Without a deep cultural foundation, it is impossible to become a real calligrapher. Throughout history, people who have made achievements or achievements in the art of calligraphy, almost without exception, have high cultural attainments, not only calligraphy works have been passed down to later generations, but also most of them have been passed down to this day. Looking back at history, we can find that many ancestors who did make achievements in calligraphy after being eliminated by history were mostly literati and scholars at that time, and few claimed to be calligraphers at that time, let alone famous artists. Nowadays, some people who are called calligraphers or even famous calligraphers are not proficient in or even understand the traditional culture of China. They always limit their calligraphy to simple glyphs, have no cultural foundation, and are always ingenious in glyphs, euphemistically called "innovation"; There are also "famous artists" who can only write three or five words, holding a small notebook with a few words copied from nowhere. There are many positions on the business card, such as director of international organizations, consultant of associations and mass organizations. A few more amateurs clapped their hands in front, which really attracted some people's crowding round. They don't know that these calligraphers will only be passers-by in history, each leading the way for three to five days.
If you want to be a calligraphy artist recognized by history, you must take root in traditional culture, absorb the nutrition of traditional culture, digest and absorb it, pursue it unremittingly and deliberately, and correct your attitude, so as to create calligraphy works with rich connotations and high taste.
Basic requirements of calligraphers
This problem is well known. Now let me briefly talk about my calligraphy intention and personal characteristics.
Calligraphy intention is a personal mentality when learning or creating calligraphy, which can not be ignored in the practice of calligraphy basic skills. Calligraphy has great artistic charm and a strong sense of science and technology and form. Without a good calligraphy intention, it is impossible to practice basic skills well, let alone create good calligraphy works. Therefore, in the process of practicing basic skills, we must cultivate a good personal intention of calligraphy and let ourselves have a good mentality, which is an essential prerequisite for calligraphy learning and work creation.
As for the style and characteristics of personal calligraphy, we must not deliberately pursue it. Everyone's handwriting has its own characteristics, and it is different from person to person. Just like everyone's appearance is different, they are all themselves. Once they pursue beauty in calligraphy and have corresponding artistic content, they will naturally form their own style characteristics.
Enlightenment factors of calligraphy art to high-level consciousness
(1) Calligraphers' understanding of the architectural beauty of calligraphy. Architectural beauty can also be called static beauty, and I think it is more vivid to explain it with architectural beauty. Calligraphy is an image art with a strong sense of form. However, a calligraphy work must express the author's thoughts and feelings under certain conditions, which requires the author to choose a form that is suitable for expressing certain feelings in order to fully express himself, such as style, style, composition, pen, ink, and what type of paper to choose. In other words, how to choose materials, how to design and how to choose the type of architectural beauty that adapts to the conditions here and now to express such feelings.
Calligraphy, as an image art, has to highlight its sense of form, which requires calligraphers to understand and feel. People who can only write a style or even a few words can't express the author's thoughts and feelings through form. Meaningless calligraphy is an empty shell. It has no soul, so it has no vitality. It is just words written on paper.
(2) Calligraphers' understanding of the beauty of calligraphy and dance. Dance beauty can also be called dynamic beauty. If static things are used properly, we must pursue their dynamic things. This is extremely important and difficult for calligraphers to grasp. When commenting on a calligraphy work, experts often say: This work is very vivid, in fact, it is an evaluation of the dynamic things in the work. Writing words vividly is what every calligrapher wants to pursue. However, there is a "living" degree, but it is difficult to accurately grasp. A dancer can make some difficult movements by turning and jumping on the stage, but one thing: he (she) always grasps his own balance fulcrum, and tries his best to complete the difficult movements with high quality while ensuring the stability of this fulcrum. The truth of calligraphy is very close to this. Pursuing "living" instead of "crossing" will lead to "degeneration". Therefore, in the pursuit of dynamic beauty, calligraphers should first recognize their basic skills, grasp their own balance points, and learn honestly and humbly, preferring poor action quality to "over" and "under".
(3) Calligraphers' understanding of the beauty of calligraphy music In a broad sense, art exists in two categories: one is space art; The second is time art, which can be seen, touched or occupy a certain space. It is called space art, but some arts cannot be measured by the size of space, and people can only enjoy them for a certain period of time, such as music. China's calligraphy is not only a kind of space art, but also a kind of time art. At least, it contains the factors of time art. For example, there was a calligrapher in his study who was in a good mood. At that time, he began to brush. At this time, the calligrapher's works must express the thoughts and feelings in this state of mind here and now. However, when the work was half finished, someone suddenly knocked at the door, and the calligrapher had to put down his pen to receive the visitors. After the guest entered the door, he reported a message that annoyed the calligrapher. After seeing off the guests, the calligrapher went back to his desk and continued to create unfinished works. This shows that the change of mood and time has a very obvious influence on calligraphers' creation. Because of the change of thoughts and feelings and the interruption of brushwork, I can't continue to write.
Therefore, to evaluate a calligraphy work, we should look at it from the overall situation to see whether it is smooth, just like a beautiful music, whether its theme can express the author's thoughts and feelings, and whether it is smooth. A lyric poem and a March can't be connected into a tune in any case, because they can't have the same theme. Successful calligraphy works (except couplets) can not be judged simply by a word or a stroke, but by the overall rhythm. Just as music can't be judged simply by a single note, it should be understood from its overall sense of music. This requires calligraphers to have a clear theme and strong thoughts when creating calligraphy, just like composing music, and strive to successfully express the thoughts and feelings of talents. At the same time, people can understand the author's thoughts and feelings and appreciate its beauty through works, and can also inspire people to experience the edification given by art.
With the above basic requirements, calligraphers should move towards a higher level. When calligraphers create, the content of writing must be fully understood by calligraphers. Then, knowing other people's things will never be more complete and thorough than not knowing your own things. Therefore, high-level calligraphers want to create their own things, which requires calligraphers to have a high level of knowledge and strong writing skills. If you want to write poetry, you must know how to recite it, and if you want to write lyrics, you need a calligrapher to know rhythm, music and so on. If you can't have the above abilities well, you will be eliminated by history, let alone surpass history.