1, Zhang Xu
Zhang Xu (685? -759? ), the word Gao Bo, the word Ji Ming, was born in Wuxian County, Suzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province), a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, good at cursive writing and fond of drinking. He and Huai Su are known as "Zhangdian" and "Zhang Dian drunk".
He and He, Zhang and Bao Rong are also called "Four Gentlemen of Wuzhong", and with whom he is also called "Eight Immortals of Drinking". His cursive script, Li Bai's poems and songs, and Pei's sword dance are also called "three wonders".
Zhang Xu was born in a low family. He studied calligraphy under his cousin Lu Yanyuan, and was highly praised by Wu Daozi and Yan Zhenqing after his completion. When he was old, he was promoted or recommended, recruited talents, entered the official position, and was released as a captain of Changshu County.
He has served as the left governor and the governor, so he is called "Zhang Changshi" by the world; He died in the second year of Gan Yuan (759) at the age of 75.
In calligraphy, Zhang is good at observing objective things and combining objective natural images with personal subjective feelings. He not only inherits tradition, but also dares to innovate. By inheriting and innovating the calligraphy achievements of predecessors, his own weed art reached a peak in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
2. 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.
Becoming a monk since childhood, spending his leisure time in Zen, and loving calligraphy. He is as famous as Zhang Xu, known as "Dian Zhang Kuang Cao", which formed the coexistence of two peaks of calligraphy in the Tang Dynasty, and also the two peaks in the history of cursive script in China. 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. Professor Peking University and pioneer Li Zhimin commented: "Huai Su's cursive script has a delicate and graceful god in the escape and an innocent spirit in the wild." ?
Calligraphy works handed down from ancient times include autobiographical notes, bitter bamboo shoots, Notre Dame notes, essays on books, a thousand grasses and so on.
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Introduction of representative works:
1, Four Poems
Four Ancient Poems is a calligraphy work created by Zhang Xu in Tang Dynasty. The whole stroke is full, without delicate and slippery strokes. The handwriting is ups and downs, moving and static, full of paper like a cloud, which is really the peak of cursive writing.
2. "Self-narrative posts"
Self-Narrative Post is a cursive work written by Huai Su, a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, in the 11th or 12th year of Tang Dali (776 or 777). It is a kind of paper and ink scroll. Now it is collected in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
The Self-Narrative Post is a brief introduction to Huai Su's life, and also records the poems presented by Yan Zhenqing, Zhang Wei and Dai Shulun. The whole article is wild grass, with the pen in the middle, like a cone drawing sand table, vertical and horizontal oblique and straight, and goes all the way.
The whole volume emphasizes the continuous grass trend, turning up and down with the pen, jerking left and right, fluctuating, rapid, light and heavy, full of rules, strange changes and stirring spirit, which is the ultimate expression of cursive art.
Since the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, the self-narrative post has been a popular calligraphy post in the cursive script field, which plays a connecting role in the history of China cursive script and has a far-reaching influence in the calligraphy field. It is the longest work handed down by Huai Su, and is called "the best cursive script in the world".
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