If some readers don't think so, you think this work is not bad. Obviously, you have been poisoned by your previous calligraphy education.
1. Why do calligraphers pay so much attention to this topic?
This may have nothing to do with their interests. What are they worried about? I think it's just a sense of responsibility of a group-they don't want the next generation to continue to be misled by aesthetics! If such "calligraphy" is allowed to enter the classroom, these children will continue to mislead the aesthetics of the next generation when they grow up. They will also hang vulgar "calligraphy" in the office and "Chinese painting" in the living room.
Maybe you will say, in today's family, how many families will hang calligraphy and Chinese painting in the living room? How rustic?
Yes, those friends around me who love art and have a little taste often choose abstract oil paintings, photography or other decorations if they want to hang something at home. We all say that calligraphy is the quintessence of Chinese culture, but is this really the case? At least part of it is disgusting by the vulgar paintings and calligraphy that we can see everywhere. Instead of decorating the room with the essence of "bad customs", it is better to hang something abstract, although I can't understand it myself.
But the problem is coming again. If you don't have a certain quality of appreciation and cultivate a little aesthetic interest in previous education and self-education, it is likely that the more vulgar the work, the easier it will win your favor-no matter what type of "art" you choose, you may actually choose "pseudo art". Just like a gold chain worn by an upstart, his careful selection just shows his "taste".
Especially in these years, the country is rich and the people are safe, people generally have a little cultural knowledge, spiritual consumption demand is universal, and art is particularly important. Art is useless, but as long as people solve the basic food and clothing, art becomes a need and the best medium for people to live a more sense of existence. So in this era, our art education is very important.
Secondly, however, the present situation of art education is worrying.
Many people say it is urgent to popularize art education. In fact, what needs to be popularized may not be the education of artistic skills, but the aesthetic education. Compared with the cultivation of aesthetic ability, it is more urgent to change people's attitude towards art.
Today, calligraphy has become more and more out of practical use. I have different views with most of my peers on whether so many people need to practice. What art needs is not universal participation, but wider appreciation and respect. Just like art consumption in our life, we all like to see beautiful scenery, wear tasteful clothes and listen to our favorite music. Regardless of the specific choices caused by different tastes, at least not everyone needs to participate in the creation and production of what they see, wear and hear. People know how to respect and appreciate. This is the most reliable attitude. What is needed today is not more painters and painters, but cultural people who know how to respect, appreciate and have awe of art.
When I was a child, I took a calligraphy class in the Children's Palace for a while, and I felt that I knew a lot, so I could comment on calligraphy works at will-aren't such people everywhere around us? Even in the museum, in the face of classics, those self-righteous criticisms are always noisy in their ears-these people may know a little about art, but they don't know how to respect it at all. If this is the result of art education, isn't what you have learned far worse than what you haven't learned?
Art has no practical use, but it will give people a feeling and make people live a different realm. A subtle and inexplicable touch will make your quality of life different from now on.
Third, but the reality is that our aesthetic education places too much emphasis on its practical use. Aesthetics has become a functional moral sermon, and beauty has also been spoofed.
Art has no practical use, but it will give people a feeling and make people live a different realm. A subtle and inexplicable touch will make your quality of life different from now on.
In primary school textbooks, "Compassion for Farmers" has been required to be recited for many years, which obviously values the educational significance of this poem, but this poem itself is not brilliant, at least it is not a first-class good poem. Poetry education should not be so utilitarian.
I remember when I was in primary school, my teacher asked me to recite Bai Juyi's Grass. "The endless grass on the grassland ..." There are only four sentences. I didn't know until many years later that this poem is complete in eight sentences, and its name is not grass …
Under this cover, our feeling of beauty is becoming more and more numb. We can tell the meaning of the work, recite the standard answers and tell the educational significance of the work according to the teacher's requirements ... but what we read, see and hear is not really a good work.
Then come to Taizhou's examination paper. Obviously, the questioner's ignorance of calligraphy was exposed. "Floating like a cloud, light as a dragon", a sentence that the ancients commented on Wang Xizhi (the original sentence was "floating like a cloud, light as a dragon", originally described Wang Xizhi in Shi Shuo Xin Yu, and later quoted this evaluation in Jin Shu to describe his calligraphy), is actually a standard answer to such a vulgar work, which is really ironic. If the child is used to this big and irresponsible evaluation method, as long as he can score, he will learn not to be stingy with any praise. ...
But as a paper teacher, it is normal to know nothing about calligraphy. Imagine if you were the questioner? What will you do in the face of this task?
Internet! Baidu!
But what we found is probably a picture similar to this test paper. Don't laugh, look at the primary and secondary school teachers around us (if he is not a professional calligraphy teacher). Who can say that his calligraphy appreciation level is better than this questioner?
As we will see in the picture below, in another test paper, the questioner also quoted the calligraphy views of so-called famous writers in a forum in a certain country. How can you distinguish such empty talk, lies and amateurs?
Unlike sports, art can't fight and compete, so it's hard to expose those hypocrisy. But in fact, it is not really impenetrable, but it does not attach importance to and respect the profession, allowing "pseudo-art" to run rampant.
Last year, I was invited to give a calligraphy lecture somewhere. At dinner, a cultural official talked to me about the achievements of the local "calligraphy into the classroom". He boasted that calligraphy classes were offered in every local primary and secondary school. Of course, this is not an easy thing, but what is embarrassing is that I am only worried and sad about it. Because he didn't recruit teachers with corresponding professional abilities for these extra calligraphy classes.
It is not commendable for the school to add any courses. Many times, the wrong education is worse than not teaching. To make an inappropriate analogy, how many tragedies will be created if a driving school rashly opens without a competent coach and a suitable training ground!
The consequences of cultural and artistic education are not so direct. It will not create a road killer, but if the direction of education deviates, it will murder our wisdom, aesthetics, talent and creativity. And these invisible murders can't find the killer!
Calligraphy entering the classroom may still have a long way to go from "fake calligraphy"!