How to appreciate calligraphy? You appreciate it, right?

1, from afar. A good calligraphy work must give people a good sense of integrity. Therefore, when we look at a work, we must first stand away from it, look at the overall situation of the work, have an overall feeling of its expression and artistic style, appreciate its blank space, dryness, the echo between words, whether the charm is coherent and unified, and whether the size, length and density of words are appropriate and ingenious, so as to judge the quality of the work.

2. Look carefully. The close-up is mainly to appreciate the knot. The shelf structure of Chinese characters in calligraphy is like a person's stock price. If the skeleton is good, the figure will be symmetrical; if the skeleton is not good, the figure will be grotesque and disabled. The beauty of structure, even if the text is simple, will have different postures and extremely wonderful changes, fully embodying the beauty of Chinese characters. From the structural appreciation, many so-called masters' works immediately show their true colors. A work, reckless, without the beauty of structure, is always difficult to become a good work even if it looks very impactful as a whole.

3. Look carefully. The last step of appreciation is to move our steps and look at the brushwork as close as possible to the front of the work. Zhao Meng said that "the pen is the most important thing in calligraphy", so it is undoubtedly an important aspect to appreciate and evaluate a calligraphy work. Appreciating brushwork is like rewarding people. Some people look tall and rough from a distance, but when they look close, they are freckled, with a high nose and a crooked mouth, which is extremely ugly. Make people lose their passion. Successful pen use should be rigorous and changeable, vigorous and powerful, vivid and not rigid. It's ugly anyway