Liu Gongquan's calligraphy features: the brushwork is full of hidden front and calm atmosphere. Liu Ti's brushwork is full of calm breath. The font is tall and slender, and the brushwork is tall and vigorous. The font is slender, similar to European style, but it is quite different from Zhao Ti font with fat face and wide flat face.
The thickness between the horizontal and vertical is smaller than that of the face, thin, hard and straight, with a heroic spirit. The middle palace of the knot is tightened, and the end of the line is extended in full bloom. The waist of the willow character is slender, showing a contraction in the middle palace; The end of the stroke is in full bloom, which is in sharp contrast with the middle palace.
Liu Gongquan has many works handed down from generation to generation. The inscriptions handed down from ancient times include the Diamond Sutra, the Mysterious Tower Monument and the Su Feng Monument. Among them, the engraved version of Diamond Sutra, the mysterious pagoda monument and the Shence Army monument can best represent its regular script style.
Liu Gongquan's cursive scripts include Shen Fu, Sixteenth and Insulting Xiang Tie. Their style still inherits the style of the Wangs, which is rigorous and natural.
In addition, the ink "Zhao Meng Tie", "Postscript of Wang Xianzhi's Pear Tie" and "Zhao Meng Tie" are all seven lines and 27 words on white linen paper, which are now in the Palace Museum. Their book was engraved in "Sanxi Hall Fa Tie", titled "Ecological Danger, Strength in the Right Army", with a slightly elegant posture and heavy strength.
Brief introduction of Liu Gongquan
Liu Gongquan (778-865) was born in Jingzhao Garden (now Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province). An official, calligrapher and poet in the middle Tang Dynasty, the son of Liu Ziwen, the secretariat of Danzhou, and the younger brother of Liu Gongchu, the minister of war.
Liu Gongquan, a native of Liushi, Hedong, was the champion of Yuanhe in Tang Xianzong in 808. As a scholar for the first time, he entered the Li Painting and Calligraphy Institute. Liu Gongquan worked in the official residences of Mu Zong, Jing Zong and Wenzong, and grew up in North Korea. He has served as a great official in the seven dynasties, a tired official, a prince, a county magistrate in Hedong, and was known as "Liu". In his later years, he became an official with Prince Taibao. In the sixth year of Xian Tong (865), Liu Gongquan died at the age of 88 and was given to the Prince.