Ou Kai's Calligraphy Works

Ou Kai's calligraphy

It is characterized by a combination of harmony, strong stippling and cohesive brushwork. It is steep and rigorous. Keep the side stable, compact and sparse.

Ou Ti, the ancestor, was born in the first year of Chen Yongding in the Southern Dynasties (557) and died in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan in Emperor Taizong (64 1). He was born in Linxiang (now Hunan) in Tanzhou. Known for regular script and running script. As the largest official calligrapher in the history of calligraphy, his handwriting is called "European style", which is as famous as Yan (Zhenqing), Liu (Gongquan) and Zhao ().

Basic information:

Calligraphy font is the classification of calligraphy style. There are five traditional calligraphy fonts: running script font, cursive script font, official script font, seal script font and regular script font, which are five categories. In each category, it is subdivided into several sub-categories. For example, seal script can be divided into big seal script and small seal script, regular script can be divided into Weibei and Tang Kai, and cursive script can be divided into Cao Zhang, Cao Jin and Crazy Grass.

Among them, Ou Kai is a genre style in block letters. It is a calligraphy inheritance represented by Ou Yangxun, the head of the four schools in the Tang Dynasty. Calligraphy pays attention to statutes and steep fonts, and it is the mainstream of block letters that has been circulated for thousands of years.