Eurostyle Eurostyle is a calligraphy style founded by Ou Yangxun, a famous calligrapher in Tang Dynasty. There are four calligraphers in the history of China. They are Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan and Zhao Mengfu. The calligraphy written by Ou Yangxun is called European calligraphy by later generations.
Ou Yangxun's life experience is very rich and tortuous. After losing his parents, he was adopted by general manager Jiang and began a long wandering life. He experienced the war at the end of Sui Dynasty, the establishment of Tang Dynasty and the change of Xuanwu Gate, and experienced too many changes in his life.
Ou Yangxun's calligraphy has a sense of danger, and this life experience is internalized into Ou Yangxun's artistic pursuit to some extent, which is reflected in Ou Yangxun's aesthetic pursuit of calligraphy.
European style is characterized by the combination of Fiona Fang, focusing on squares, strong pointillism and cohesive brushwork. It is steep and rigorous. Keep the side stable, compact and sparse.
Ou Yangxun's calligraphy is neat, literary, vigorous and meticulous. Bao Qing Chen Shi once said: "The European fingering is solid and powerful, all-round and true to external forces." In other words, the European word emphasizes the power, and the strokes written are strong, not too thin or too full.
Although the European style is a little longer, it is divided into white, neat and rigorous, the palace is tight, the main pen is elongated, bold and unrestrained, surrounded on all sides, exquisite and vivid, just right. The combination of stippling and painting, the structural arrangement, is that the middle of the plane is steep and powerful, and the fonts extend to the right, but the center of gravity is still very stable, without the feeling of inclination, which is interesting and dangerous.
Brief introduction of Ou Yangxun Ou Yangxun, a believer, Han nationality, a native of Changsha, Hunan Province, a famous calligrapher and official in the Tang Dynasty, and one of the four masters of regular script. Sun of General Liang Zhengnan in the Southern Dynasties, son of General Ouyang Kun in the Southern Dynasties, was born in Hengzhou (now Hengyang, Hunan) in the second year of Liang Taiping in the Southern Dynasties (AD 557), and his ancestral home was Linxiang in Tanzhou (now Changsha, Hunan).
Ou Yangxun, together with his contemporaries Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang and Xue Qi, were called the four masters in the early Tang Dynasty. Because his son Ouyang Tong is also good at calligraphy. He and Yu Shinan were both famous for their calligraphy in the early Tang Dynasty, and they were called "Ou Yu".
Representative regular script includes Jiuchenggong Li Quanming, Huangfu Birthday Monument, Huadu Temple Monument, and running script includes Zhong Nimeng's stippling and running script with thousands of characters. He has his own unique views on calligraphy, including eight methods of calligraphy works, teaching strategies, pen theory and thirty-six methods.