1, particularity of calligraphy object:
Calligraphy can become a unique art because its writing object is Chinese characters developed from hieroglyphics. Lu Xun pointed out in the Outline of China Literature History: Chinese characters "have three beauties: beauty in meaning, beauty in emotion and beauty in nature; The beauty of sound, the sensitivity of ears, the second; The beauty of modeling is remarkable, and the third is also. "
The "formal beauty" of "eye sense" mentioned here refers to the formal beauty characteristics of Chinese characters themselves. A Chinese character is often a refined picture, and its main feature is its wide range of expression.
2, the particularity of using tools:
The traditional tools used in the art of calligraphy are pen, ink, paper and inkstone, commonly known as "Four Treasures of the Study", in which the writing brush plays an important role. It has the advantages of "sharp, neat, round and healthy", and can write strokes in different fonts, so that the fonts present completely different body styles and convey the calligrapher's rich and subtle inner feelings.
3. Point-line combined modeling;
Chinese characters are the objects of calligraphy, and their basic stroke specifications are simplified as point, horizontal, vertical, curve, pen, stroke and hook. This is actually lines with different shapes, so people call calligraphy line art.
Its distinctive feature is "seeing the meaning according to the shape", which condenses and abstracts the objective things in nature into simple strokes according to their shapes. It is not a direct imitation of objective things, but has a certain symbolic significance, which reflects both the formal beauty of objective things and the dynamic beauty of objective things.
4. Abstraction and expressiveness of calligraphy art;
Calligraphy art is "silent voice, invisible image". As an abstract image, it is more general and universal than painting and sculpture in reflecting the formal beauty of objective things, and can remind people of some beautiful characteristics shared by many things, not limited to a specific thing.
Calligraphy is a expressive art, "the calligrapher is the trace of the heart". Calligraphy can "reach its temperament and shape its joys and sorrows", which embodies the formal beauty and dynamic beauty of objective things, permeates the thoughts and feelings of calligraphers everywhere, and is the expression and expression of calligraphers' inner feelings.