European style is a calligraphy style founded by Ou Yangxun, a famous calligrapher in Tang Dynasty. There are four regular script writers in the history of China. They are Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan and Zhao Mengfu. The calligraphy written by Ou Yangxun is called "Ou Style Calligraphy" by later generations.
Ou Yangxun's life experience is very rich and tortuous. After losing his parents, he was adopted by general manager Jiang and began a long wandering life. He experienced the war at the end of Sui Dynasty, the establishment of Tang Dynasty and the change of Xuanwu Gate, and experienced too many changes in his life.
Ou Yangxun's calligraphy has a sense of danger, and this life experience is internalized into Ou Yangxun's artistic pursuit to some extent, which is reflected in Ou Yangxun's aesthetic pursuit of calligraphy.
European style characteristics
It is characterized by a combination of harmony, strong stippling and cohesive brushwork. It is steep and rigorous. Keep the side stable, compact and sparse.
Ou Yangxun's calligraphy is neat, literary, vigorous and meticulous. Bao Qing Chen Shi once said: "The European fingering is solid and powerful, all-round and true to external forces." In other words, the European word emphasizes the power, and the strokes written are strong, not too thin or too full.
Although the European style is a little longer, it is divided into white, neat and rigorous, the palace is tight, the main pen is elongated, bold and unrestrained, surrounded on all sides, exquisite and vivid, just right. The combination of stippling and painting, the structural arrangement, is that the middle of the plane is steep and powerful, and the fonts extend to the right, but the center of gravity is still very stable, without the feeling of inclination, which is interesting and dangerous.