Detailed explanation of three elements of calligraphy:
First, the brushwork
The brushwork refers to the method of using a pen. The methods of using the pen are: starting, closing, round, Fang Bi, center, flank, exposed front, hidden front, lifting pressure, turning and so on.
Second, the structure
Chinese characters are composed of different strokes. How to combine strokes to make them beautiful and produce artistic skills of structure. Structures are also called knots, knots or frames. The structure of calligraphy often makes appropriate artistic arrangements according to the structural rules of characters and the aesthetic taste of authors. These artistic laws are density, truth, proximity, symmetry, harmony, convergence and divergence, echo and so on. The structure of calligraphy is to express the formal beauty of words according to these laws and techniques, giving viewers rich aesthetic feeling and interest, thus causing endless artistic conception and interest.
Third, rules and regulations vary in size. A small composition is how to arrange the stippling relationship within a word, or how to arrange between words. The big chapter is not only the planning and arrangement of the relationship between words, lines, words, inscriptions and printing. It also requires that the lines of a work should be echoed and expected, coordinated and fluent, and have a sense of integrity.
The composition of the composition has the following aspects:
Shape: specifications and forms such as main hall, banner, couplet, banner, bucket square, fan, etc.
Text: This is the main part of the work, and the writer should decide the layout of the composition according to the differences of words, fonts and forms.
Bank payment: that is, the signature refers to the text outside the text. There is a difference between the upper and lower segments and the long and short difference segments. The content is generally the source of the text, the object of writing, the time, the reason for writing, the postscript, etc. And the next paragraph is time, author or library, name, etc. But generally speaking, it is rare to write all of them, so most of them are short and pithy. Depending on the needs of the composition.
Seal: name seal, museum seal, year seal, small seal, idle seal, etc. Shapes are square, long, round, oval, conformal and so on. There are white and Zhu (that is, yin and yang). In addition to the name seal, the first seal can be made. In other words, there are more stamps on the outside of the first word in the first line. Name seal can be divided into surname seal and name seal, depending on the work situation, one or both sides can be used. As for the print size, it depends on the font size. We think that small is better than good, and it must not exceed the size of the paragraph.