Calligraphy, by some so-called schools, is both mysterious and mysterious. Isn't it just writing with a brush? The ancient writing tool was a writing brush, and everyone wrote in his own way. Whose post is this? Are self-contained. Today's people insist on drawing a gourd ladle according to the strokes of the ancients, saying it is orthodox calligraphy, and he says it is Jianghu style. Sending children to learn calligraphy now is such a set of rules and regulations, which will definitely not improve their artistry. The ancient handwriting is not beautiful, and some are not beautiful. Anyway, different people have different opinions, and everyone has different preferences!
After practicing calligraphy for two years, I met two insiders, but suddenly I lost interest and realized what calligraphy is. It's just something that some people use to flaunt themselves and whitewash their appearance. As a grassroots, I spent ten or twenty years writing better than Wang Yizhi. What's the point? Praise twice in person is not a pile of shit in others' eyes. It's just that experts think they can't follow the crowd, otherwise how can they be called experts? They just want to be different. It is said that art brings people a good feeling, so works of art are for appreciation. If you always show ugly things to everyone, and then some experts force the labels of excellent works to be accepted by the public, this may violate the principles of art.
Besides, only a few people appreciate it. Isn't it narcissistic? Therefore, it is suggested that experts should not oppose the public and reverse beauty and ugliness, because art also needs the market! Calligraphy has always been beautiful, and it cannot be said that the uglier it is, the more calligraphy it is. The handwriting of all the great calligraphers in history is beautiful. In modern times, there are some deviations. Many people can't write well and pretend to be calligraphers. You are more beautiful than the big grass written by Huai Su. You are a calligrapher.
I think beauty should be the standard. The so-called past posts should not be the standard, and ancient masters should not all be the standard of good calligraphy. At present, there are celebrities such as chairman, vice-chairman and committee members in China calligraphy circle. I don't value which calligraphy is outstanding. What's more, the so-called celebrities (actors, artists? ) are producing "works", but the price is not wrong, and many people lift their sedan chairs and blow their horns. Whose work I don't like.
Sometimes if you make a thing mysterious, you've already reached the opposite side. Of course, calligraphy has its statutes, but it must embody aesthetic feeling, which is what we call vernacular beauty. It is difficult for modern people's calligraphy to surpass the ancients, because the ancients' calligraphy more embodies the taste of ancient life and the joys and sorrows of calligraphers. Modern people have no such basis of life, only calligraphy. Nobody writes letters with a brush, do they?
In fact, people who practice calligraphy and those who don't practice calligraphy will have very different horizons and viewpoints, and only by investing can they know its taste. For the simplest example, as far as the Preface to the Lanting Pavilion is concerned, you should say that it looks so-so, which proves that you haven't started yet, or that you just started and can't taste it. But since ancient times, people who love calligraphy have been fighting for it all their lives, and almost no one dares to claim that they have surpassed this magical product!
Some of the views here are too overwhelming to study in detail. Is there only one calligraphy school? Then there is no innovation! Defenders of ugly books can't convince people. The information in modern society is so developed that the convenience of learning calligraphy is incomparable to the ancients. Then it can be said that calligraphy is neither mysterious nor mysterious. Society needs to maintain tradition, so it can have the broad masses of the people as the foundation. The same is true of calligraphy. In this way, the so-called calligraphy belongs only to calligraphers, not to the public. Today, almost all people have gone to school and can read and write. But a few people know what kind of face, Liu body, thin gold body, as long as they think the handwriting is good. As for the charm, style and genre of any word, people don't attach importance to it or understand it.
Only calligraphers can understand. Then let the calligrapher play by himself. If calligraphy becomes something that only calligraphers understand and ordinary people don't, it will really become an antique. Such antiques can only be preserved, not carried forward, and they cling to the remnants and refuse to innovate. If the circle of calligraphy is becoming smaller and smaller, and the popularity is lacking, is there any way for calligraphy? That's digging your own grave.
My humble opinion is that calligraphy is like a person. Some people are knowledgeable about looking good, while others are knowledgeable about not looking good. It is their nature to be knowledgeable rather than good-looking. The so-called ugly calligraphy strokes are all in place, but the word formation is different. It is this difference that makes everyone's words different. Isn't this like a person who looks the same?
Everyone has his own aesthetic standards. Some people like two kings, some people like Yan Zhenqing, some people like Ou Yangxun, and some people are omitted. It can be seen that there is no uniform standard for calligraphy, otherwise how can there be so many schools? Their only unified standard is to express their feelings through words. Everyone has experienced it, and you can't write good words in a bad mood, which is why. Personally, I think it's just the relationship between criticism and self-criticism. There is nothing to care about, that is, the ancients left us such a rich cultural heritage, which made us have more references and broader horizons on the road of writing and enriched the connotation. It's just that we have shortcuts. I don't think it matters whether we should take back the ancient ideas in our own works. Just express your feelings.