Appreciation of Zhang Xu's cursive works

The representative figures of cursive script are Huai Su and Zhang Xu. Zhang Xu is a master of cursive script with great personality. Because he is often drunk, clamoring for madness, then writing books, and even writing with his hair dipped in ink, he has the nickname "Zhang Dian". After Huai Su inherited and developed his brushwork, he was named after cursive script, and called it "Dianzhangzuisu" (or "Dianzhangkuangsu").

I. Zhang Xu

Zhang Xu (685? -759? ), the word Gao Bo, the word Ji Ming, was born in Wuxian, Suzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu), a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. He is known as "Zhang Dian", and he is also called "drunk" with Huai Su, "Bachelor of Si Wu" with He, Zhang and Bao Rong, and "Eight Immortals of Drinking" with whom. His cursive script is very similar to Li Bai's poems and songs.

Second, Huai Su.

Huai Su (737-799) was born in Lingling, Yongzhou (now Lingling, Hunan). Calligraphers in the Tang Dynasty were known as "weeds" and were called "grass saints" in history. Huai Su's cursive script is thin and vigorous, flying naturally, like a whirlwind of showers. Calligraphy is ever-changing, ever-changing and has statutes.

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1, Zhang Xu cursive features

He is good at drawing nutrition from various sister arts. According to legend, he saw the princess arguing with her husband and got the meaning of cursive brushwork through preaching. Later, I saw Gong Sundaniang's sword-dancing device and realized the god of cursive brushwork.

Zhang Xu is a calligrapher with great personality. He used the impassioned Wild Grass to express his inner feelings-"Emotion, embarrassment, sadness, happiness, resentment, longing, drunkenness, boredom, injustice, and feelings in his heart should be expressed in cursive." The combination of stirring emotion and cursive script creates a natural and unpredictable weed perfectly, and also makes Chinese characters rise from practical writing to emotional sustenance.

2. The characteristics of Huai Su cursive script.

By observing the Qifeng in Xia Yun, Huai Su realized the wonderful method of cursive writing, and asked the famous artists at that time for advice, and calligraphy made great progress. He is good at using the center as a grass. "Suddenly there are three or five sounds, and there are thousands of words on the wall." Although he is arrogant and changeable, he is equipped with statutes.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia -dianjanguangsu