Four Ancient Poems is one of Zhang Xu's representative works and a classic in the history of China's calligraphy. It is based on cursive script, with capital letters, lines, official documents and other characters. Magnificent and changeable, it has high artistic value. In Four Ancient Poems, Zhang Xu expressed the artistic conception and rhythm of the poem with rich brushwork and beautiful lines.
His calligraphy has both formal beauty and intrinsic spiritual beauty, which shows his profound understanding of poetry and calligraphy. In addition, Four Ancient Poems also embodies Zhang Xu's pursuit of natural beauty. The lines and shapes in his calligraphy works are full of vitality and movement, as if depicting vivid pictures.
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In the aspect of calligraphy thought, Zhang Xu advocated learning from nature and emphasized seeking inspiration from nature and human social life. In Zhang Xu's eyes, all natural images and all traces of life are the objects of learning from nature, which can inspire his creative inspiration.
According to historical records, Zhang Xu enriched the thought of white cloth structure from "contending for Tao", gained the inspiration of speed, weight, richness and thickness of brushwork from "following the wind", and found the compact, powerful, reasonable and ethereal charm of wild grass calligraphy from "sword dance", which made the calligraphy have a qualitative change.
With the eyes of a real artist, Zhang Xu searched for symbols corresponding to his emotions and personality in nature and life, integrated the situation of all things in the world with his subjective modality, painted wantonly, and took techniques as the means of spiritual expression, thus turning everything in technology into Tao and everything into his own artistic language, and finally formed the expression form and style of Wild Grass flying wildly.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhang Xu