The characteristics of Jianghu calligraphy are as follows:
1. The author does not know what tradition is, and never scribbles without writing.
There is no trace of traditional classic inscriptions in this kind of works. The better ones have some traces of celebrities nowadays, and most of them are just arbitrary, horizontal and vertical smearing. Lack of taste and low style.
2. There is painting in the words. The combination of calligraphy and painting is originally a kind of folk art, with its unique simple aesthetics and audience.
But it is basically not included in the scope of professional calligraphy writing. If it were also called calligraphy, it would seem nondescript and vulgar. The form is usually to roughly write a specious outline. For example, if you write "dragon", it will wrap around, paint on the dragon's head, and draw the dragon's tail. If you write a horse, it will have four hooves in the air and its head will neigh.
The word "phoenix" is like this, the word "tiger" is like this, the word "rooster" is like this, the word "cow" is like this, the word "hericium" is like this, and the word "shou" is also like this. It is neither a word nor a painting, nor a painting nor a word. It is vulgar and unbearable. According to Sun Guoting's "Shupu", it is "clouds, snakes, clouds and dew, turtles, cranes, Huaying and the like".
3. Don’t write according to conventional rules. You have hands, but you have to use your feet.
You obviously have hands and feet, but you have to use your mouth. He obviously has his right hand, but he still has to use his left hand. What about opening the bow left and right, writing upside down, writing in the air, writing with eyes closed, writing by jet, writing in water, writing with one stroke of hollow characters, etc.
Or there will always be a hundred-meter-long scroll, a thousand-meter-long scroll, or a large character with a diameter of ten feet, ten meters, twenty meters, or even fifty meters, etc. The forms and methods are all bizarre, and the works are often a complete mess, pretending to be mysterious and confusing to outsiders.
It is a good thing to explore the form of calligraphy, but no matter what method you use to write, if you want to be recognized by others, you must make the words on the paper have both traditional skills and a certain aesthetic. Interesting. In a word, the effect is better. Otherwise, it is just a piece of waste paper, just used to bluff people and defraud people of applause and money.
The dangers of quack calligraphy
It misleads the public’s understanding of the art of calligraphy and reduces people’s aesthetics.
"Jianghu Calligraphy" does not have any artistic beauty, but because of its strong visual impact, it can easily attract attention once it appears. For people who don't know enough about calligraphy traditions, if they read too much such calligraphy, their perception will form an inertia. Over time, their aesthetic perception of calligraphy will become indifferent between good and bad, and will always stay at a low level. .
It tramples on the sanctity and dignity of calligraphy art and insults traditional culture.
Calligraphy has thousands of years of tradition in terms of aesthetic standards, from basic brushwork, inkwork and composition to high-level charm, style and artistic conception. If you do not respect these aesthetic norms, just graft performance art into calligraphy creation, and take advantage of opportunities in the name of innovation, it will undoubtedly insult and hurt the dignity of traditional culture, and it will definitely become a historical sinner that will be infamous for thousands of years.