Let me talk about the concept of "line" first. Calligraphy is the closest to painting, but it is not painting. When painting, lines are used to define the outline, which is called painting. If quality and technical requirements are added, it is called painting. Chinese painting has the so-called "eighteen strokes". There are curves, straight lines, dotted lines, thick lines, thin lines, solid lines and dotted lines. The most important thing is the quality and technical requirements of pens.
Even western paintings show "lines" in sketches and sketches, and there is no so-called "line art". All images and forms are the comprehensive effects of points, lines and surfaces.
Calligraphy is listed separately and then promoted to "cursive script". First of all, it is not the art of painting and description. This is written, which is higher than painting technology. Simplicity is by no means simple, and cursive writing can never be practiced by carelessness. It was cast by the people of China with a history of thousands of years. It cannot be reduced to just a combination of "lines".
Calligraphy, an advanced graphic art, cursive script is the "crown" of calligraphy, which refers to the basic skills of painting, the combination skills to improve the difficulty, and the effect consciousness of lyrical freehand brushwork. It is a comprehensive art engineering body. It embodies many phenomena of unity of opposites, that is, the combination of reality and reality, the combination of static and dynamic, and the alternation of density.
It can be seen that the structure and layout are impermeable and changeable, which is unexpected. If we lack in-depth and meticulous rational cognition and only regard it as the creative effect of inorganic line combination, it will weaken its high-quality connotation and guide the meaningless randomness and simplification of creative consciousness.