How to improve your appreciation of calligraphy

Appreciating calligraphy not only appreciates the ingenuity and skill of the stippling, structure, and composition of the work, but also the inheritance, school, and style. More importantly, it is to feel the temperament, emotion, and aesthetic pursuit of the calligrapher through the work. Calligraphers create with their hands and thoughts, while appreciators rely on their eyesight to discover the life and soul contained in the dots and white of the canvas. This is a kind of re-creation. The effectiveness of this kind of re-creation

depends on the viewer's knowledge, cultivation, experience, state of mind and other factors.

Appreciating calligraphy requires a macroscopic understanding of the work, such as momentum, use of ink, structure, and lines, and appreciating the quality of the lines, from which we can observe the author's use of brushes, ink, and brushwork during creation. Secondly

It is the Chinese character structure composed of lines and dots, which embodies the interest and philosophy. The third is Baibai, which includes the movement of Qi and composition... The fourth is spirit, which refers to the spiritual temperament, style and charm of calligraphy. The spirit is

a faithful record of the author's spiritual realm and is closely related to the author's emotion, character, and cultivation. Excellent works must be beautiful in form and spirit, and have both form and spirit. Appreciators must understand the body and posture and capture the spirit

of the work.

The artistic style of calligraphy is firstly reflected in the unique overall style of the work and the unique realm created by it. This is most closely related to the calligrapher’s aesthetic orientation and artistic temperament, and is the calligrapher’s art

The result of the pursuit of artistic personality.

The art style of calligraphy is the artistic characteristics and creative personality expressed by the artist in his creation. Due to their different life experiences, artistic accomplishments, personal characteristics, aesthetic tastes and personalities, calligraphers have their own characteristics in the choice of calligraphy style and expression techniques, thus forming different artistic styles. . Style can also best show a person's temperament and spiritual outlook; this is also a reflection of thousands of years of history accumulated in the mind of calligraphers, reflected in the subtleties of lines, and the infinite infiniteness of people. daydream.