The "structure" of standard fonts is like a normal person sitting or standing at attention, and he or she has standard limbs; Its "brushwork" is like normal development of bones and muscles, flesh and blood; Its "charm" is its expression and posture.
Calligraphy must be clear and easy to read in order to be an "artifact". The style of writing is ingenious and tasteful, which can be described as "wonderful"; Subtle rules can be described as "energy products"; One product alone is not easy to use because it is "impossible".
Zhong You and Wang Xizhi's calligraphy should have their own merits!
Zhong You's capital letters are characterized by "antiquity" and "liveliness", and the highest level of capital letters is just that. Write the meaning of "ancient" in lowercase letters, the font must be tilted upward, and the structure of stippling should try to have the meaning of dividing books. In addition, whether the structure of Chinese characters is influenced by the radical concept is also an important symbol of its ancient meaning. In other words, if we abandon the radical concept and do the opposite, we can also enhance the Gu Zhuo interest of fonts. This is the case with Zhong You's lower case. Because Zhong You lived in an era when official script was widely used, he was used to writing official script. Therefore, when he creatively wrote official script, he always used some official script brushwork and structure intentionally or unintentionally to make official script simple.
"Living" is nature, and the most important thing is to avoid some regular writing. Zhong You's advantage lies in that he does not deliberately pursue structure excessively, but is always natural and shaped by words. For example, the words "Shang Shu Xuan" at the beginning of Xuan Biao are written in a flat and even manner, while the words "Shu" and "Xuan" are written in a long and even manner. In composition, Zhong Shu tries to avoid "straight but similar, symbolic but similar, whole up and down, even front and back", so there is an ancient and simple beauty of nature, which is immediately one of the reasons why the ancients rated Zhong Shu as the first nature, and it is also an important reason why the "cabinet style" that took a lot of effort in Ming and Qing Dynasties failed to come to the end.
It is very important to learn to write the clock body as a whole. From the perspective of technique, it is not difficult to write Zhong Zisong. However, it is not easy to "understand" the charm of simplicity and simplicity and the elegance of Xiao Yuan. Reading Zhong You's short letters is like reciting a beautiful pastoral poem, blending with a relaxed, elegant and quiet mind.
The main characteristics of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy are peace and nature, gentle and subtle brushwork, graceful and graceful, and later generations commented: "Like a flowing cloud, like a dragon." Wang Xizhi's calligraphy is exquisite and extremely beautiful to watch. In a word, he introduced Chinese writing from practicality to a realm of paying attention to techniques and interests, which marked that calligraphers not only discovered the beauty of calligraphy, but also showed the beauty of calligraphy.
Wang Xizhi's greatest achievement is to change the simple calligraphy style in the Han and Wei Dynasties into exquisite and beautiful calligraphy style, which created a precedent for elegant and beautiful calligraphy. In particular, the running script "Preface to Lanting" is like flowing water, elegant and smart, with delicate bones, beautiful stippling, alternating density and white cloth, which contains extremely rich artistic beauty within the scale. Regardless of horizontal, vertical, point, skimming, hooking, folding and pressing, it can be said that the pen is extremely wonderful.
Calligraphy is the * * * sound of the soul and an extension of the embellishment of heaven and earth. ...