What does Zhao Mengfu think of calligraphy and painting?

Zhao Mengfu has his own views on calligraphy and painting, and his thoughts can be summarized into two basic points: advocating retro, advocating the calligraphy interest of pen and ink. He put forward that the standard of painting art is not the authenticity of the content of the work, but the "ancient meaning". Learning from the ancients is not to learn how the ancients observed and expressed life, but to imitate their "ancient meaning." Zhao Mengfu advocated the calligraphy interest of pen and ink. He repeatedly emphasized the relationship between the truth of the image and pen and ink in his self-titled poems after "Showing the Stone Forest", but talked about the consistency between painting pen and ink and calligraphy in isolation. Generally speaking, pen and ink interests should not be antagonistic. If we talk about pen and ink interest without the principle that art is an image and reflects life, its real significance is to cancel the content of the work, or put the content of the work in a secondary position, which will leave the realistic artistic point of view.