Generally speaking, calligraphy works can be divided into five categories.
First, fine products, or magical products.
The greatest feature of this kind of calligraphy works is high taste, appealing to both refined and popular tastes, just like the statue of Venus and Beethoven's music. No matter how outstanding an artist is, or an old woman selling vegetables, no matter in the hall or in the kitchen, she is impeccable.
For example, Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Lanting Pavilion was enlarged and placed in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, which was praised by international friends. It's still very refreshing in a thatched cottage in the country.
Second, good products, or fairy products.
Most of these calligraphy works are the deliberate works of great artists.
One of the characteristics of this kind of calligraphy works is its elegant taste and outstanding personality, but it appeals to both refined and popular tastes.
Fairy is different from God. God is supreme, but the gods have their own ways. Barefoot immortals have the style of barefoot immortals, and long-browed immortals have the specialty of long-browed immortals.
This kind of calligraphy works are often praised by experts because of their distinctive features, skillful techniques, elegant styles, profound pen and ink skills and no failure, but laymen sometimes can't understand it, so they generally can't appreciate the taste of appealing to both refined and popular tastes.
Third, elegant products.
Elegant products are man-made, mainly referring to the calligraphy of those literati with profound cultural background.
This kind of calligraphy works are characterized by elegant taste, natural and unrestrained brushwork, clever brushwork and no carving. Sometimes there may be one or two failures, but it doesn't hurt.
This kind of calligraphy works are subtle in personality, calm in posture, casual in composition, elegant in dictionary and fluent in pen and ink.
This kind of calligraphy works are not as good as the immortal works carefully carved by professional painters and painters in terms of momentum, composition, writing, pen and ink, but they are better than the former in terms of emotional expression.
Fourth, vulgar goods can also be called commodities.
This kind of calligraphy works are characterized by mediocre taste and gorgeous pen and ink.
This kind of calligraphy works are mainly of service nature, but as long as the content is appropriate, the writer can sometimes express his personal feelings.
Here, I want to remind you that vulgar products are not bad works, but have different tastes, that is to say, different clients.
Fifth, miscellaneous goods.
Miscellaneous products refer to some calligraphy works that cannot be classified. Some works incorporate words into paintings, and I don't know whether it is words or paintings.
For example, write the word "longevity" as a living monkey;
The word "dragon" is written in the shape of a dragon, with horns and whiskers and a long tail;
When writing the word "tiger", the tiger's head, Tiger Claw and tiger's tail are all integrated into the word, especially the tiger's tail, which is painted realistically with flying white brushwork.
(Sun Hao) The Beauty of Neutrality in Calligraphy Extended Reading
Line is the most basic element of calligraphy image.
The beauty and ugliness of lines is the most direct basis for people to judge the beauty and ugliness of calligraphy works
Throughout ancient and modern calligraphy, lines generally give people three kinds of aesthetic feelings, namely, masculine beauty, feminine beauty and neutral beauty.
These abstract lines are either hidden or exposed, or ill or astringent, or straight or curved, or opposite or harmonious, or virtual or real, and so on. * * * isomorphism forms the aesthetic expression of calligraphy lines.
The masculine beauty of lines is reflected in the "bone", "strength" and "potential" of lines.
Lines are weak without bones, and isolated without strength. "I only seek its strength, and the situation will be self-generated" (Li Shimin's Biography of Wang Xizhi).
The masculine beauty of lines gives people a specific concept, such as "strong", "strong", "dense", "strong", "Rowen tiger vibration", "nervous", "a thousand miles of clouds", "long live the withered vine" and "breaking waves and rushing snow".
So how is the masculine beauty of lines created?
The implementation of specific actions, such as pen exposure, haste, withering, Gu Zhuo, etc. , can lead to the emergence of linear force. The concrete feeling of this kind of strength is a kind of masculine and magnificent sensory feeling, which is simply the result of "bone", "strength" and "potential" formed by decisiveness and speed.