How about this cursive script? What's wrong with it?

People who are not good at calligraphy may not appreciate it, and people who know a little calligraphy may not appreciate it. Especially cursive script, for the average person, it is just like a gobbledygook. The lines are twisted and the deformation is simplified to the extreme, which makes many people stunned. Many people flinch when they encounter cursive script, because the recognition rate is too low, and they don't appreciate it because they don't understand it. In fact, understanding and appreciating calligraphy are two different things. Even regular script, appreciation of calligraphy mostly depends on the understanding of brushwork in a work, how the calligrapher starts and closes the pen, etc. However, cursive scripts are often avoided because they don't understand the content, which is actually a habitual misunderstanding of calligraphy.

In fact, cursive script can be regarded as an "ink animation" composed of strokes and glyphs. Even if you can't understand what words are written, you can still feel the special charm of cursive script in the movement of strokes.

To appreciate cursive script, we must first understand that the font structure of cursive script is the same as that of regular script, with the same setting and mathematical principle. Some words may be distorted by cursive writing, and one or two words may be used occasionally, but it is impossible that all words have no geometric balance structure. In addition to the geometric structure, cursive script is characterized by smooth strokes.

Appreciating Zhang Xu's cursive script, for example, we can clearly see the movement process of the brush, turning around, and how the brushwork moves up and down, all of which are very smooth brushwork, which is equivalent to restoring the whole writing process.

But the fluency of cursive script has a very important point, that is, the sense of rhythm. A good cursive script, like music, has both "silence is better than sound" and "leaping horses and colliding weapons" When you write somewhere, you will stop, re-dip in ink, arrange the peak shaving of the brush, then start writing again, move the brush flexibly and quickly, and then prioritize. The rhythm of the whole process is very obvious.

We don't know what words are written, but we can clearly see the rhythm of the pen, the size and thickness of the ink.

If you feel it carefully, you will feel that your mood is beginning to be influenced by these strokes and fluctuates with the strength of the strokes. This is the charm of calligraphy, which causes the audience to sing.

How to judge the rhythm of a work? First, see if the strokes of the works you read move you, and then see if your vision is driven and strongly influenced by the strokes.

The reason why calligraphy is touching is mysterious, but it is also easy to understand. Writing techniques produce visual effects and stimulate the induction of emotions. Therefore, whether we know cursive script or not, we can all feel the beauty produced by the combination of strokes and glyphs.

There is stillness in movement and stillness in movement is a life rhythm of cursive script. As long as we judge from these two points, we can learn to appreciate cursive script, whether we know or not.