First, the basic elements of calligraphy
Black and white is one of the two major color blocks that make up the world. It is the basic tone of everything and the epitome of the universe. People from nature are also the main body of transforming nature. All human cultures are inseparable from nature, especially calligraphy.
Black and white are the most important pigments in calligraphy and painting, among which point, line and surface are the basic elements of Chinese characters. China's calligraphy is expressed by Chinese characters, so the dots, lines and planes become the formal language of calligraphy, which is the formal language information and symbols of calligraphy.
2. Points, lines and faces
Flowers, trees, mountains and rivers in nature are all three-dimensional composed of points, lines and surfaces. A grass, a tree, is composed of points. The surface of its leaves and the surface of its stems are composed of points and faces, which constitute a complete shape of its object, with a specific outline of the object-the appearance of lines.
So lines are the main elements and symbols that make up a complete object. Without lines and surfaces, there is no shape of objects on paper.
Points, lines and surfaces create the shapes of objects, which means that calligraphy is the shapes of different Chinese characters caused by points, lines and surfaces written with a brush. This shape has its own rules in calligraphy, just like people have to wear clothes besides their own bodies, but the color matching and style selection of the clothes they wear are ever-changing.
Everyone has different aesthetic ability. Although they wear different clothes and fancy clothes, their basic elements are all made according to the basic laws of human body shape.
That is to say, no matter how you change in points, lines and planes, you take the prototype as the norm, and you seek change in the norm. Only in this way can his works have vitality. Calligraphers of all ages have their own different artistic styles, such as Zhang Zhi's wild grass, Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Lanting Pavilion, Cong Baozi's bamboo slips and poems on Shimen, Zhang Qianbei's simplicity and boldness, and Yan Zhenqing's perseverance.
They all reflect the different styles of each faction. In short, they all express different personal styles with different points, lines and faces on the basis of seal script, and form different fonts, that is, seeking movement in silence, seeking differences in the same and seeking changes in the same.