Lyricism is the unique artistic essential characteristic of dance and calligraphy. Dance uses the stage space to shape images and forms different time movement lines, thereby presenting different dance styles; calligraphy shapes images on flat rice paper, forming different time movement lines, thus presenting different calligraphy styles. Movement lines are one of the expressive means of lyricism in dance and calligraphy. If dance is the beautification of human body movements and postures, then calligraphy is the beautification of stipples and postures. One is through the human body, the other is through Chinese characters. They reach the same goal through different paths, and both express thoughts and feelings, reflecting the attributes of the beauty of life. Plasticity is the second means of expressing the lyricism of dance and calligraphy. The figure of the dancer on the stage is like the flying pen and ink in the hands of the calligrapher. Through the coordinated internal and external movements of the human heart and body, the dancer and calligrapher express various emotional waves in the dancing figure and flying pen and ink, thereby expressing Different emotions bring the viewer into the aesthetic realm.
Dance and calligraphy are both visual arts and performing arts. The performance of dance is the ultimate goal of artistic expression, which will disappear with the performance, while the performance of calligraphy is just a process, the ultimate goal is to display calligraphy works, and calligraphy works will not disappear. The process of calligrapher's performance (that is, creation) is also very exciting and beautiful like dance. The ancient Greek philosopher Plato once said that dance is the art of speaking through gestures. Although this conclusion is not very accurate, it shows that movement is a unique expression method of dance. Dance is originally the movement of the human body forming an artistic language. Some recognized postures of hands, feet, and heads in dance come from a moment of balance in the movement process, which is the same as the specific stipples of horizontal, vertical, left, back, lift, and fold in calligraphy. Mr. Chao Wen believed in "Dance Talk Outside the Door" that there is "a formal connection" between the pointillism of Chinese calligraphy and the movements of classical dance. He said: "There are many things related to this. For example, the characteristics of the word '一' in the use of pen - the wishful thinking shown by the starting and closing of the pen (S lying on the side), and the movement of the dance - if you want to go right, go left first "It's so close to the process of wanting to move left and right first." Especially the shape changes and movement transitions of running script and cursive script have more similarities with dance. The famous calligrapher Zhang Xu of the Tang Dynasty's cursive script "Four Calligraphers of Ancient Poems" has the momentum of "gods soaring into the sky", the dynamics of "whirlwinds and showers", the changes of "summer clouds coming out of Xiu", and the lines of "running snakes and scorpions", The "circling and turning" postures, taken together, immediately remind people of the description of sword dance in Du Fu's poem "Watching Gongsun Da Niang Dance with Swords": "As bright as Yi shooting at the nine sunsets, as powerful as the emperors flying dragons." "It comes like a thunder to calm down its wrath, and it ends like a river and sea condensed with clear light." It is said that Zhang Xu's cursive script drew inspiration from the vigorous momentum and rhythm of Gongsun's sword dance, as well as the rich and heroic charm. , became a good story. Today, Gongsun's sword dance has long been lost, but we can see her graceful dance from Zhang Xu's cursive script.
Rhythm and rhythm are the basic elements of the expressive variety of dance and calligraphy. When dancing, the actor's whole body must move continuously in order to express rhythm and rhythm, and maintain coherence and harmony between movements. This requires that all fixed balance postures have to change with the changes in the actor's movements, just like all stipples in calligraphy creation. The fixed writing method and shape must be changed in various ways according to the up, down, left and right conditions during movement, whether it is long or short, high or low. If the dancer's flowing dance steps were traced with ink lines, they would definitely be the same as the rhythmic and continuous cursive lines. If different rhythms form different dance rhythms and styles, expressing different emotions and thoughts, then different rhythms will also form different flowing beauty and styles of calligraphy, expressing different emotions and aesthetic characteristics. The British Roger Fry said: "The first thing that attracts attention in Chinese art is the rhythm of the lines that play a leading role in it. We have noticed that the rhythm of this line always has the characteristics of flow and continuity. This is really a remarkable thing. A kind of dancing curve drawn by hand.”
Although Chinese calligraphy art and dance are two art categories, their aesthetic attributes can be said to be similar. In the 1980s, some calligraphers and dancers at home and abroad tried to integrate calligraphy and dance. The actors' dance movements were matched with the changing calligraphy works on the background of the curtain, and they choreographed the "Ink Dance" repertoire, which became popular in the United States and China. It has been performed and has been well received. The dynamics of dance art exist in the performance process, while the flowing expression of calligraphy art has been solidified in lines. As Mr. Zheng Song said: "Dance is dynamic calligraphy; calligraphy is graceful and sentimental dance postures."
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In fact, anything that can be called art has more or less some connection with the art of calligraphy. Some are more obvious, and some are more obscure. In addition to painting, music, and dance, There are also seal cutting, architecture, opera, literature, sculpture, military affairs, chess, etc., which are quite similar to the art of calligraphy. If all Western arts are trending toward music, then in China, all arts are related to calligraphy. Indissoluble bond. They have differences and similarities; they are interconnected, influence each other, promote each other and learn from each other in the connection and influence. Calligraphy is the most advanced form of expression in Chinese art, Mr. Xiong Bingming said. It's not too much to call it "art within art".