Gongda Yan declared war on these two unhealthy trends with his elegant, upright and lofty calligraphy art. China's calligraphy can't ignore the beauty of noumenon, but it still needs to draw nutrition from tradition and statutes, and develop it in a limited way in the rules, showing the atmosphere and pattern with China's traditional aesthetics. Gongda Yan believes that the lines of calligraphy are the knowledge of the soul, and each stroke is a portrayal of the calligrapher's electrocardiogram and a reflection of the calligrapher's living conditions. It is true that an influential calligrapher has strong and restrained genes of Chinese civilization in his blood, and his spirit is masculine and upright. His aesthetics is the embodiment of truth, goodness and beauty, embodies the pulse of the times, and inspires China people to step into a new era more firmly, courageously and civilly, thus fulfilling the moral responsibility of "helping others and being enlightened". Stand up, this is the courage and responsibility that a calligrapher should have, a sense of social morality and historical mission, and Gongda Yan silently bears it with his calligraphy art. Above, the author talks about the aesthetic significance of Mr. Gongda Yan's calligraphy. Now, please follow the author's brush strokes and interpret Mr. Wang's calligraphy style and its connotation. The author thinks that Mr. Yan is good at grass and proficient in seal script and official script. He has made in-depth research on cursive scripts of past dynasties, especially the works of calligraphy masters such as Zhang Zhi, Wang Xianzhi, Zhang Xu, Huai Su and Huang Tingjian, which have reached a considerable height in the creation of official scripts. What is even more rare is that his study of classics did not simply stay at the level of legalism and ancient customs, but went in and out with the teachings of sages. Each calligraphy style not only creates a unique artistic style, but also freely "switches" among several calligraphy styles on the basis of deeply understanding the characteristics of various calligraphy styles, which reflects his profound comprehensive artistic accomplishment. For example, his seal script works are elegant and upright, taking "Taishan Stone Carving" and Shi Guwen's simplicity and innocence, and drawing lessons from Cao Li to form a unique style; When his official script emphasizes the feeling of a cicada's head and a phoenix tail, it takes the dynamics and momentum of cursive script and emphasizes the dynamic beauty of the structure. At the same time, it also strengthened the life perceptual experience of official script with the freehand brushwork of Dacao, making its official script full of talent and artistic conception. The solid foundation of seal script also enables Mr. Wang to introduce the pen and ink and aesthetic orientation of seal script into the creation of Dacao. It can be said that he is using the brushwork of seal script as a cursive script, so his cursive script is full of penetrating brushwork and leakage marks.
▲ I have heard many comments from Jiangsu calligraphers many times. In addition to rigorous scholarship and superb calligraphy skills, Mr. Gongda Yan also has strong administrative ability and rich human feelings: modesty, justice, tolerance, generosity and kindness. He can unite, understand and treat others well. "He is not considering whether it is good for himself, but whether it is good for Jiangsu calligraphy." This reason greatly promoted his cohesion and affinity among the members.
▲ Habit determines success. Someone summed up the three characteristics of Mr. Gong Da's "habit"-developing a sense of urgency in doing things, pursuing a sense of fame for Excellence, and having passion for work.
▲ The teacher of the University of Technology said meaningfully: "I attach great importance to three things: personal cultivation should pay attention to the integrity of personality; The breakthrough point of thinking is from' self' to' self'; In terms of the effect of the work, adhere to the identity of artistic ontology value and social value. " Art is first of all "for learning" and "for being human", which is the support point of his seeking Tao.
▲ The biggest feature of Gongda Yan cursive script is its unique brushwork, which is the concrete embodiment of the innovative achievements of calligraphy in the Qing Dynasty and the evolution of calligraphy in the times.
▲ The real success of Gongda Yan cursive script is the combination of steles and stickers, which is the inheritance and development of the stele school since Ganjia in Qing Dynasty.
▲ Gongda Yan's seal script creation has reached a considerable height, and he has made extraordinary research on cursive scripts of past dynasties, especially those of Zhang Zhi, Wang Xianzhi, Zhang Xu, Huai Su, Huang Tingjian and Wang Duo. Therefore, it is successful for contemporary calligraphers to integrate the brushwork and brushwork of seal script into the research and creation of Dacao, and take a road of combining stone and stone from the Northern Song Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty.
▲ It is against this background that Gongda Yan's cursive hand consciously explored calligraphy, which has special value and historical significance. The conscious application and thinking of his brushwork, brushwork, composition, font, pen and ink, writing tools and writing carriers have reached a new historical development stage. He used the long scroll art form commonly used in ancient calligraphy to serve this Olympic theme full of world significance and influence, which not only created the historical record of the long scroll of vernacular calligraphy, but also publicized the peaceful spirit of the Olympic Games with this calligraphy form with the most oriental cultural charm and typical representative, showing the unique charm of China culture and the special value of calligraphy.
▲ Facing Gongda Yan's long scrolls, we seem to see that the ancient calligraphy art has been given new life in the rapidly developing information age. It not only carries the mysterious artistic code that has shocked and sublimated our hearts in the East for thousands of years, but also carries the modern humanistic spirit and goes to the world and the future with special Olympic culture.
(Excerpted from Zheng Heng 'an's "Book Oriental Art Report World Peace-Gongda Yan Big Grass Long Scroll"; Appreciate ")
▲ Gongda Yan's "The Art of Big Grass" has an extremely unique aesthetic personality, which is abrupt and independent in the contemporary book world and has a very personal artistic view.
▲ Gongda Yan is a descendant of Yan Yan. His profound education, life experience and comprehensive immersion in poetry and calligraphy have created his broad mind and broad artistic mind. In particular, his calligraphy is based on the golden pen seal, which runs through the real grass line and is transported in the grass. Long scrolls are pure in taste, high in ancient style and elegant in style. Give people a unique, relaxed, graceful, atmospheric, leaping out of the wind, majestic beauty.
▲ Gongda Yan is a contemporary master of seal script, with a profound knowledge of pen and ink. He used the pen of the center to make his lines thick and dignified, and occasionally used the flank to win the glory and make it elegant. He inherited the brushwork of Zhang Zhi, Xiao Wang, Zhang Xu, Huai Su and Huang Luzhi, and even used the brushwork method of long-front wool curling. It applies the ancient "Chinese" writing method to different tools of base paper and long front wool quilt. The center wrapped the hair in waves, and the fine hair was investigated. Its stippling and lines are as thick, firm and immovable as a falling stone. Mr. Gongda Yan's big grass art shows extraordinary artistic characteristics in breath and brushwork, and also shows amazing artistic expression in such nuances as stippling, lines and ink painting.
▲ Using ink is also a highlight of Mr. Gongda Yan's cursive script. He is especially good at using astringent pen, thirsty ink, ascending ink, and even using Su Mo to make the book more attractive, wonderful and natural, and fade away the lead. Mr Yan's cursive script is pure, and he pursues the purity of cursive script.
▲ Gongda Yan cursive script can be described as dazzling in style, atmosphere and technique.
▲ Gongda Yan's cursive brushwork is directly derived from the strokes of seal script, which is consistent with the "ancient method". He bypassed the connection between Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties and Tang and Song Dynasties. His cursive brushwork has far-reaching historical significance, which is also the most important reason why he has a strong personal artistic view in today's book world. But "pen and ink should follow the times", the times have changed, and the carrier, tools and aesthetic standards of writing have changed. Therefore, the so-called "ancient law" should also be changed and created. Mr. Gongda Yan's cursive pen coincides with the ancients and develops with the ancient method, which is the key to his success. Mr Gongda Yan's grass is made of long wool, and he likes to use raw rice paper. This kind of paper and pen will not appear until after the end of the Ming Dynasty.
▲ When Gongda Yan wrote cursive script, he applied the method of "wrapping the front" of the Qing Dynasty's sheep's long hair as seal script to the grass, avoiding the diseases of scattered pen, broken pen and collapsed pen, not only retaining the pen used in the center, but also developing the ancient central method of the ancients. There is also the fact that Changfeng sheep has a lot of ink, and the original paper eats deep ink, so it can produce high-quality stippling and lines.
▲ Gongda Yan's cursive calligraphy has reached a high artistic level, which is the artistic embodiment of his comprehensive cultivation. It is based on his profound skill in calligraphy, especially his deep seal brush and ink, which is conveyed by the method of "wrapping the front", making the overall style of his calligraphy simple and elegant. The purity of grass method lies in finding that "simplicity" is the highest direction of grass art and even China art; The dialectical relationship between "delay" and "flow" is skillfully handled by hyphenation and pen breaking in words; The division of long and short lines and large and small films into space increases the change of composition and the intensity of rhythm, thus achieving extraordinary artistic expression, surpassing peers and striving to catch up with the artistic realm of the ancients.
(Excerpted from Zheng Heng 'an's rafters stirring the sea dragon in the sky-appreciation of Gongda Yan's cursive works).
▲ Gongda Yan consciously shoulders the responsibility of promoting traditional culture. As far as calligraphy is concerned, Gongda Yan's calligraphy is an art of "art for life".
▲ Gongda Yan showed his life ideal of "art for life" in the art form of calligraphy, especially his seal script and cursive script consciously blended a certain state of mind and spirit, which we can understand as a moral realm. His art of life is produced and realized in this state of mind. The achievement of a great calligrapher must be the achievement of "Tao" and a milestone through the ages.
▲ Gongda Yan's "one stroke" cursive script is the most enjoyable in philosophy and the spirit of Tao. He can abstract the meaning of life in the contradiction of calligraphy (in the state of creation), so as to realize the realm of life in Tao and art and practice the highest realm of his life, just as Sun said in the preface to Book Score: "A poor husband is sure to pass." It can be seen that the "Tao" in calligraphy and the "Tao" in philosophy are consistent and unified at a deep level. Knowing this, we can understand the "freehand brushwork" spirit of China's art and the personality spirit pursued by Gongda Yan's calligraphy, which is a unique way of China's art-freehand brushwork tradition.
▲ The linearity of Gongda Yan's writing style vividly highlights his life feelings of "clarity, integrity, moderation, harmony, generosity and simplicity" in his personality spirit. This is the highest spiritual realm pursued by China's calligraphy. In fact, it is a sense of social responsibility awakened by the social morality of "kindness and honesty" in art, and calligraphers are perfecting this social mission and social responsibility with their personal aesthetic artistic pursuit.
▲ Gongda Yan's books have a fresh air and a faint air. This is the "inner beauty" of his calligraphy, that is, the beauty of artistic conception. Artistic conception is actually the germination and expression of a cultural connotation in the works, and it is also the conscious and tacit understanding of the cultural spirit of an era in the works. We trace the spirit of "easy hair" in his calligraphy. He went from Wei, Jin and Han Dynasties to Zhong Ding's Da Zhuan, and then to Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. In terms of brushwork, he transformed the profound and ancient brushwork of the Han Dynasty into the present meaning of the ancient law (with the spirit of "Tao"), and he was able to break through the pattern and be unique, and interpret the simple and beautiful realm in the light and gentle stippling. In his Zhen Jing, we often realize the source of the universe full of life feelings. This "line" is a lifeline full of vitality and essence.
(Excerpted from Shi Yanping's "Kindness is like water, so it is a few things in the Tao-on the personality spirit of the famous calligrapher Gongda Yan")
▲ Gongda Yan was famous for his seal script in his early years. He is the first calligrapher to explore freehand brushwork in contemporary calligraphy. His freehand brushwork "San Shu Pan" is full of ink and ink, which strengthens the tension of lines and the expressive force of epigraphy. At the same time, a strong subjective consciousness is integrated into the composition, and the aesthetic taste of the times is conveyed in the visual modeling. Open up your own territory in the field of ancient calligraphy aesthetics. Among the few contemporary masters of Da Zhuan, Gongda Yan is undoubtedly a pioneering representative with remarkable achievements.
▲ Therefore, it can be said that Gongda Yan's research and creation of the ancient seal script did not stop at the ancient level, but sought and realized the expressive aesthetic dimension in the in-depth study of the ancient seal script, which strengthened the life perceptual experience of calligraphy. It is also in the pursuit of the aesthetic value of the ancient seal freehand brushwork that Gongda Yan finally turned to the creation and exploration of Da Cao, and established the central point of his aesthetic value of calligraphy creation with Da Cao.
▲ It is after decades of creative efforts in the field of freehand brushwork of seal script that Gongda Yan has realized the transformation from the ancient method of seal script to the grass. In this sense, Gongda Yan has always been a calligrapher with strong subjective consciousness and expressive force.
▲ Gongda Yan's insistence on the ancient seal script and his exploration of the aesthetic value of his creation made him have a strong subjectivity in his historical identification with Da Cao. He has always emphasized Da Cao's ancient seal script, and he regards seal script as the highest expression of Da Cao's cursive brushwork. He thinks that the ancient method of seal script is the main theme of grass, so his grass tends to be traditional in the Tang and Song Dynasties as a whole. His cursive script is based on Xu Su, which strengthens the purity of lines and the sense of power brought by the worship of seal calligraphy, and at the same time introduces the sense of spatial structure, cuts the yellow valley and strengthens the spatial expression of cursive script. In the form of cursive script, he adopted the form of hand-scroll, which was commonly used in cursive script in Tang and Song Dynasties, and integrated the expression of space-time structure, the large structure of cursive script into one, interspersed in the side, reflecting the strong spirit of cursive script in Tang and Song Dynasties. Gongda Yan Dacao's attention to the ancient seal cutting method shows his personalized combing and insight into the history of cursive script, which is undoubtedly instructive for contemporary cursive script creation, especially for Dacao.
(Excerpt from Jiang Shoutian's "Holding the Wind and Cloud in the Chest —— Comment on the Times Significance of Gongda Yan's" Da Cao Juan ")