The composition layout of calligraphy works is a way to arrange words and lines from top to bottom, complement each other, take care of each other and arrange them into articles. Composition is also called "layout" or "white cloth". We usually write or create calligraphy works in the form of sentences, paragraphs and articles. Therefore, we should not only write every word well, but also pay attention to the artistic treatment of the whole article.
From the point of view that "writing" serves work and life, it is enough to write clearly, steadily, symmetrically and generously, which is easy to recognize and looks comfortable. The word "composition" contains the theories of "big composition" and "small composition". Big composition' refers to the white cloth of the whole work; Chapters refer to the layout of a single word and the relationship between a single word and multiple words.
In the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Shen said in his Book of Interpretations: "The ancients wrote as if the composition had a typography. There are rules. There is a writing method, and the final structure is corresponding from beginning to end. Therefore, as the saying goes, a word is a point, and a word is the master of the last article. "
The branches of words are white; Layout refers to the stippling structure of typesetting, which expresses the relationship between words and lines by artistic means.
Good calligraphy works are embodied by the connection between qi and qi, and the connection between qi and qi depends on the reasonable collocation of words, such as size, length, width, spacing and looking around, so as to achieve the continuity of brushwork.
In the creation of calligraphy, due to the differences in font and calligraphy style (font: refers to the five-style characters of Zhuanlikai; Calligraphy style: refers to the calligraphy written by calligraphers, such as Yan Style written by Yan Zhenqing in Tang Dynasty and Zhao Ti written by Zhao Mengfu in Yuan Dynasty. ) They are also arranged in different ways.
The writing formats of calligraphy creation are: hand scroll, fan, bucket, banner, nave, couplet, strip screen, etc.