The art of calligraphy is a precious cultural wealth of the Chinese nation. As an art, calligraphy not only has the uniqueness of general visual arts, but also has its own uniqueness. The understanding of its nature should be considered from the uniqueness of this art. What I bring to you below is Zeng calligraphy. I hope you like it. Appreciation of Zeng's calligraphy
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The essence of the beauty of calligraphy and its forms of expression
1. Thoughts on the essence of the beauty of calligraphy
1. The reason why Chinese character writing developed into the art of calligraphy
In our inherent concept, Chinese characters and the art of calligraphy cannot be separated. ?Calligraphy is the art of writing Chinese characters?. There are hundreds of countries and nations in the world, and most of them have their own languages ??and characters, but their writing has not become an art. The uniquely Chinese Chinese characters have become art in the process of their evolution, or they have a certain artistic quality from the very beginning. Some scholars use the theory of "the same origin of calligraphy and painting" to explain the origin and nature of Chinese characters becoming an art, such as Liu Gangji's "A Brief Essay on the Aesthetics of Calligraphy" and Jin Xuezhi's "A Discussion on the Aesthetics of Calligraphy". Because writing originated from pictograms, and because the stipple writing of writing can create various shapes that are similar to the shapes (or dynamics) in real life (Liu Gangji), writing has become a way to describe real life. figurative art. This concept that calligraphy must reflect real life is obviously just an application of general artistic principles. More people believe that the fact that Chinese characters have become art is due to the structure of Chinese characters, and thus believe that calligraphy is an abstract art. The complex and simple structure of Chinese characters and the staggered stipples create many elements of beauty, which is a prerequisite for it to become an art. Without the complexity of Chinese character structure, it seems unimaginable that simple writing would become an art.
However, here, we need to distinguish between "artistic" and "artistic". We say that the shape of Chinese characters has innate artistic quality because its shape conforms to some basic aesthetic principles. For example, the structure of many Chinese characters has symmetry, just like certain objects in nature have basic beauty, such as the branching of branches, the symmetry of the veins of leaves, or the symmetrical arrangement of a human torso, etc. Another example is the structure of Chinese characters. Different characters may be complex or simple, large or small, long or flat, square or round (nowadays, artistic characters are uniform in shape, but handwriting is different). When many Chinese characters are arranged together, they naturally form A kind of contrasting beauty. These innate characteristics have become important prerequisites for the art of calligraphy, just as the particularity of the human body structure and human movement performance are the basic prerequisites for the art of dance. But being artistic is by no means equal to art itself. If we must say that the original Chinese characters are the art of calligraphy, it would be childish and ridiculous to say that basic human movements (such as walking, running, playing, etc.) are equivalent to the art of dance, even though those original characters seem to have It has quite a sense of beauty.
2. Thinking about the ontology of life through people and books
Chinese culture, generally speaking, is a change in the understanding of the nature of humans and nature. For example, the Taoist understanding of the laws and ways of the occurrence, development and change of all things in the universe, the Confucian understanding of the human ethics that people must follow in the process of life and behavior, the Buddhist Zen understanding of the meaning of life and the realm of life, etc. wait. All this cognition takes life as its core content. Introducing the understanding of life into the philosophy of art makes art, as a human spiritual activity, an experimental field for people to reflect their understanding of the way of life. Therefore, whether it is calligraphy, painting, music, etc., all It can transcend ordinary craftsmanship and become a profound art that can not only please the artist himself, but also the appreciator and connect the two.
The understanding of life is nothing more than the following aspects: First, the understanding of the ontology of material life.
The fields of biology, medicine and other natural sciences are mainly aimed at studying the structure of living matter. The human form is the most representative of natural life forms. The second is the understanding of the life behavior process from birth to death. The expression of human personality and desire for creativity, the social consciousness that comes from getting along with others, people's awareness of themselves and the transcendence of life, etc., constitute the beauty of life that is unique to humans and differentiates them from animals. The third is the understanding of the inner laws of why life exists, why it develops, and why it changes. Life is created by the combination of yin and yang. The two bodies of yin and yang are constantly intermingling and separating, thus causing the change, development, death and rebirth of life. Humans are divided into male and female, and animals are divided into male and female. The two bodies of yin and yang cannot exist independently. There is yang within yin and yin within yang. In the Bagua, the Qian and Kun hexagrams are all yang and all yin. They are just symbols and have no independent existence. All other hexagrams can correspond to different feelings of all things and life. Yin deficiency, yang deficiency, etc. in TCM pathology refer to the pathological conditions of life caused by the imbalance of yin and yang in organisms, revealing the profound philosophical principles existing in life sciences.