-reading Xiao Li's works
Liu Xilin
I am an old member of the Book Association, but I seldom have the opportunity to participate in the activities of the Book Association. I just write silently, so I call myself a bookworm outside the door. Of course, we still know something about the calligraphy circle, especially what changes have taken place in the words of Lao Yu Xin You, and what merits deserve special attention, and we are often encouraged by this. Xiao Li is one of them.
More than 30 years ago, I met Xiao Li at Mr. Jiang's home. At that time, she was a child, a calligraphy disciple of Mrs. Jiang's husband, and studied calligraphy in the Children's Palace. 1989, Jiang Yuchan Mountain in Sichuan County completed the relief of the Refugee Map, and Mr. Xiao took everyone to celebrate. That night, a dance was held to welcome Mr. Xiao, but Xiao Li helped me copy the county annals. Pen calligrapher is calm and calm. I think her calligraphy must be good.
How many years have passed, I saw Xiao Li's cursive script at a book fair and was surprised to find that it was an escaped snake, a snake that jumped into the grass from a distance. Later, I gradually got in touch and knew that she was the important task of Minsheng Bank Beijing Branch. After graduating from the First Normal University majoring in calligraphy, she became a researcher at the National Academy of Painting in China and a tutor in the calligraphy creation and research class in Shen Peng. In recent years, she has hosted "Kuaizai Kuaizai Ji Ya" for many times, and she has written her own poems and talked about ancient and modern things with famous people in Beijing, old and young Xian Yi. She is happy and has no embarrassment of bargaining with fake pens. I saw their "Come on, Ji Ya" and "Free Talk on Poetry" published, shared their happiness and tasted their thoughts, just like wandering in the bamboo forest and sitting in the running water.
In the late spring, Xiao Lijun took her book as a reminder, and I was going to savor the weeds she left in my visual memory, but only the 2006 book Proverbs of Ma Kai 1999: "People-oriented, country-oriented, public-oriented ... indifferent to fame and fortune, indifferent to wealth, keeping honest and clean. Comply with heaven, conform to public opinion and return to nature. " The meaning of the text is good, and so is the meaning of the book. She used three words as a square and several sheets of paper in succession to form a loose individual into a whole with strict external form. There are some extraordinary ideas in this big page, and the pursuit of its book meaning is the "air-to-air interleaving" in form. This reminds me of the ancients' theory of "observing rhyme" and Mr. Yu's public statement: "Read the whole book spirit and draw a confused pen", which is also the spirit of the whole book. So, is it really from your own heart to write what others mean? I was a little confused when I advocated "painting from the heart". She said, "I also advocate" painting from the heart ". This content is exactly what I want, and I want to hang it to encourage my colleagues. " It can be seen that the heart of a bank president, his dedication to "taking measures to help the people of the world" and his need to be single-minded with his colleagues in his career also stem from his heart. Later, taking regular script as the main body, she wrote Ma Kai's five plays about the birth of her little grandson. She was moved by heartfelt human feelings, which were also based on human feelings. These two books about Ma Kai are the current material. As long as it touches the story around you, it can also be called "the source of the heart." The source of the heart is not only Yi An's Mourning for the Past, but also Lu's Shen Lao and Under the Sad Bridge.
Xiao Li's calligraphy styles are diverse. After reading her eighteen screens of the Heart Sutra, I will feel a kind of vigorous, simple and generous beauty because of its majestic structure and rough strokes in the center. You will think of the stone valley on the cliff of Mount Tai, which is amazing. Women have a rare husband spirit. She said, write dawn also like Huai Su's "small clear chest gas", if Huai Su know, will also "don't call three to five times" as a bosom friend!
Xiao Lizhi's calligraphy first benefited from Mr. Xiao Qiong. Mr. Xiao is the daughter of four famous doctors and literary masters in old Beijing. She is a disciple of Xinyu Pu and Qi Baishimen. Her running script is open and generous, and she is called "two Xiao's in the north and south" with Nanjing Xiaoxian. She remembers Xiao's teaching of "keep the pen" and "keep the thread", and this enlightenment education will lay an artistic foundation for her life. Later, he was a proud disciple of Mr. Shen, who was familiar with Mr. Xiao because of Jiang's study and also had exchanges in calligraphy. Teacher Shen's comprehensive and unique thinking has a great influence on her. In recent days, I have read other books of Xiao Li, and I am more inclined to merge, like a model, like grass, mixed with truth, grass, seal script and official script, but still dignified, but comfortable; Suddenly it became cursive, but it was linked with the pulse of regular script. It is not mature, but it is unique. Shen Peng, his teacher, said, "There is truth, grass, seal and official seal. A little deliberate, a little casual. " "A little deliberate" is the original intention, expectation and design, and it is a process that is expected to be transformed; "A little carelessness" is a natural interest, a natural and beautiful realm, which is expected to be rich. I admire her courage, which is generate's creative inspiration after she realized a series of relationships, such as yin and yang, black and white, positive and sincere, static and dynamic, rigid and soft, real and virtual, clumsy and skillful, simple and handsome. But the founder is still the basic pattern, and the strictness reveals the small three and aura. As a new creation, this kind of immature fruit may be a little stale, but it may lose its flavor when it is really mature, so the ancients had mature and young experience, which is naturally the theme and realm of her relatively independent and stable style.
A few years ago, I published an article "Talk to outsiders again" in China Calligraphy. This year, there is another article from the heart, which is an extension of the theory of "painting from the heart" that strongly advocates calligraphy and painting. Among them, I also advocate that calligraphers write their own poems. While writing ancient poems, Xiao Li tried to write his own poems to cultivate his mind. To this end, we talked about the content and form of calligraphy. I think the brushwork and composition of calligraphy naturally belong to the category of form, but this form has personality and emotional connotation, which is the meaning of the book. If the meaning of a book points to painting and turning point, it is both a form and an emotion, a meaningful image, and the meaning of words belongs to internal meaning and content. Although it is controversial whether the meaning of the text is the content of calligraphy works, the direct relationship between the meaning of the text and the writing heart is undeniable. China's calligraphy is born of words, with profound meaning, sublimated by literary accomplishment, and stippling is only relatively independent, which is a comprehensive and regular feature of national art. Nowadays, people only pay attention to the external form, but despise the meaning of books, even despise the meaning of books, so I still hope that painters can be literate and poetic, and use the meaning of books to cultivate the meaning of books subtly. Xiao Li's poems are all very carefully selected. There is only one poem, "A dream in ten years recalls the past and writes about misty clouds and grass." Mr. San Xie awarded the phoenix feather, and the rough painting was also vivid. "This poem is well written, among which is a peacock feather brush given to her by Mr. Shen, and the last sentence is a sign of modesty and self-confidence. The word "stippling" is often used in Sun's Book Score: "It is true that stippling is a form that makes it affectionate; Grass takes stippling as emotion and turns into shape. "Xiao Li realized this kind of book meaning." Only one of his poems, Nan Gezi, was named eight by He Naishi. Among them, "leisure is clearer", "a spring breeze" and "poetry is old and self-contained" are quite vivid. I advocate that this poem should be done, even if it is a prose poem or a new poem. "Words are the heart" and "Books are the heart" are the most valuable aesthetic qualities of China's painting and calligraphy. Contemporary calligraphers who can write poems are very few, especially female calligraphers who can write poems. Xiao Li is not short of talents. When she is in charge, she will be able to do it, and that kind of "rough learning and fine painting" will definitely change from coarse to fine, which will be more literary and poetic, more vivid and expressive.
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