There is no innovation in calligraphy now! Think of regression as innovation!
Whenever I see some calligraphy that I think is very innovative! Always feel ridiculous! I don't know what he has innovated. What can hold water is nothing more than what the ancients tried! For example, writing seal script! What did you innovate? The ancients wrote it long ago! Can you say that you are innovative? And Weibei style! Did you create it for Weibei? Regular script cursive script is the same!
I found that many so-called innovations are nothing more than taking the style of a certain era in ancient history! It's just an exaggeration, but also an exaggeration of the book style that has long been eliminated by the ancients in practice! Such as seal script! Can you say that it is not a book eliminated by the ancients? Weibei Lishu and so on! Can you say that it is not the marginalized style of the ancients?
Even more ridiculous is that! Many people are trying to innovate new books! So I mixed regular script with seal script! Seal script mixed with Wei Bei pen! Write Yan Zhenqing's regular script stagger! For example, the confession stickers are deliberately made large and small! It's crooked. Wait, what else?
Not to mention! Ugly the ancients into something capable! For example! The ancients had a land of flying white! I made ten white dots! The ancients had density! I exaggerated the density! Even a part of a word is written like a fly shitting! The other part is like the wind! The ancients have interspersed! So I deliberately wrote this line as another line! Take mania as your personality! Take the alternative as the fashion! Full of paper! Dry and angry! Black wind sweeps! Loki Si Tong is in power! What a chaotic scene! ! ! It's like going to hell again!
Buddhist Ceng Yun! The environment is born of the heart! Write calligraphy to such a state! How can there be peace? If you don't believe me, please look at the person who wrote this word around you! People who learn this word! They are all arrogant and unruly! Swearing! Take the curse as a sentence! Take it as a character to harm people! And the humility of the literati! What a bunch of robbers!
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Inheritance and Innovation of Calligraphy Zhang Yikuan
How to inherit and develop calligraphy? Many people are thinking and trying.
Calligraphy, which has reached its peak for thousands of years, has found another way by picking up traditional tools. Some people imitate life in ancient inscriptions.
Throughout the history of calligraphy, the change and development of fonts began in Oracle Bone Inscriptions during the Yin and Shang Dynasties, including Qin Zhuan, Han Lishu, Jin and Tang cursive script, regular script and running script. These fonts have different font faces and distinctive styles; The flag is clearly marked with the brand of the times. However, from the Tang Dynasty until today, the change of fonts has basically stagnated. Among the fonts created around the Tang Dynasty, later generations focused on the writing techniques of Li Si, Zhong You, Wang Xizhi, Yu Shinan, Ou Yangxun, Chu Suiliang, Li Yong, Zhang Xu, Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Zhong Shaojing and Sun, and were immersed in the so-called golden rhyme, Tang method and Yi Song. When it comes to change, it's just a technical attempt, not a real innovation. Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang in the Song Dynasty; Zhao Mengfu and Wang Meng in Yuan Dynasty; Jie Jin, Zhu Yunming, Wen Huiming, Dong Qichang, Zhang Ruitu and Wang Duo in the Ming Dynasty, Shi Tao, Wang Shu, Jin Nong and Zheng Xie in the Qing Dynasty are all famous artists, and their calligraphy doorways are still framed in the situation of predecessors' fonts. There is no doubt that they are all peerless masters of writing and deduction.
From the Qing Dynasty to today, people who study books continue to follow an antique road. In fact, Zhong You is Zhong You and Wang Xizhi will always be Wang Xizhi. Everyone indulges in the previous pen and ink techniques, but ignores their own thinking of boldly exploring new styles. Learning from predecessors is a shortcut. In the past, calligraphy had to shoulder practicality, and imitation became the mainstream. Today, hard pen, computer and other tools are used as text communication. Traditional pen and ink calligraphy has mainly become the function of artistic appreciation, and it is logical to keep pace with the times.
Innovation and development need basic skills and talent, but more need courage and innovative consciousness. As we all know, to learn Chinese characters, we must lay a foundation, and after mastering it for a period of time, the foundation will be formed. Whether it is solid or not depends on its investment and the state of talents. In addition, there is a question of what direction to lay the foundation. Let's talk about the existing fonts first. Block letters have the foundation of block letters, and cursive script has the writing method of cursive script, so the new style must have new foundation support.
Innovation means reform, and reform means pain! I think Qin Shihuang unified the characters into Xiao Zhuan. Without Han Li's innovation, I'm afraid I can only watch Xiao Zhuan dominate the world with our fonts. Official script has been leading the coquettish for hundreds of years. Without the development of bamboo slips, we may not see cursive scripts, original works and running scripts in Jin and Tang Dynasties. ?
At present, calligraphy innovation faces two major embarrassment. First, calligraphy appreciation has formed a habit pattern from thousands of years of aesthetic infiltration; Moreover, the book association, which has the function of inheriting and developing authority at present, shows a stubborn tendency in thought; It depends on which ancient road you take to recognize and evaluate, or you will be out of date. Second, calligraphy belongs to the category of ideology. Unlike in ancient times, if the handwriting of the scholar was not good, the imperial examination would fail and there would be no way out. Nowadays, cultural people in society don't talk about heroes by calligraphy, and calligraphy is dispensable. Calligraphy is only a pastime in art appreciation. Moreover, the success of calligraphy innovation is not as immediate as that of scientific experiments, and the success of experiments is immediate. The innovation of calligraphy needs the establishment of innovative consciousness and the formation of collective atmosphere.
It stands to reason that today's era should be the most active period of innovation and creation. After the founding of New China, a great reform of simplified characters was carried out, which is a golden opportunity for calligraphers and gives learners a stage to keep pace with the times. The development of the publishing industry also makes the works of the ancients almost completely searchable, and the calligraphy style of the predecessors is clear at a glance, which creates conditions for the overall grasp. However, it has been more than 60 years since the reform of simplified characters. Strangely, the mainstream simplified characters in today's society are regarded as gambling in the calligraphy world, and almost no one appears in the calligraphy exhibition hall. On the contrary, it emerged endlessly in the posters of the Cultural Revolution, but it was a flash in the pan. However, some small shops still have room to sell, but they have never been able to enter the art hall of calligraphy creation.
Of course there are many reasons. The reform of simplified Chinese characters in New China has completely subverted the traditional typesetting method, which does have its limitations in the continuity of font writing, but it is also a challenge in aesthetic habits. In fact, isn't it a challenge that words are engraved on the tripod, written on rice paper and appeared on the computer? Why is it not subversion to turn seal script into official script and cursive script?
The prosperity of ancient calligraphy was stimulated by the imperial examination, and the prosperity of contemporary calligraphy needs the promotion of exhibition culture. In recent years, the calligraphy exhibition co-organized by China Calligraphy has been very active, which has played a positive role in the exchange and prosperity of calligraphy, but the orientation of respecting the past and cherishing the present is very obvious. If we hold some calligraphy innovation exhibitions that keep pace with the times, it will promote the calligraphy innovation of contemporary simplified characters; When mobilizing everyone's creative enthusiasm to keep pace with the times, imagine the emergence of colorful contemporary simplified Chinese calligraphy, which echoes the various simplified Chinese characters in the Han Dynasty; Contemporary calligraphy is full of practical significance.
These calligraphy styles created by the ancients were interpreted by later generations with these fonts.