Four great calligraphers

Running script is developed and originated on the basis of regular script, and it is a font between regular script and cursive script, which is produced to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the illegible cursive script. The four-line script refers to Wang Xizhi, Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing and Su Dongpo.

1, Wang Xizhi?

Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, has a reputation as a calligrapher. He is good at calligraphy, as well as official script, cursive script, regular script and other styles. He is good at studying the style, imitating the hand style, learning from others' strengths, preparing the style, melting into one furnace, getting rid of the style of writing in Han and Wei dynasties, becoming a school of his own, with far-reaching influence, and his brushwork is euphemistic and subtle, beautiful and healthy. Wang Xizhi's calligraphy is based on the philosophy of Laozi and Zhuangzi, and it is also a conflict based on the Confucian doctrine of the mean. ?

2. Ou Yangxun?

Ou Yangxun, a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, was good at calligraphy, and he was also called "the four masters in the early Tang Dynasty" with Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang and Xue Ji. Because his son Ouyang Tong is good at calligraphy, the father and son are called "Big Europe". Ou Yangxun has a unique view on running script. ?

3. Yan Zhenqing?

Yan Zhenqing was born in Yanshi, Langya. His calligraphy is exquisite and he is good at writing. Chu Suiliang was a beginner, and later he studied under Zhang Xu, obtaining brushwork. Its regular script is dignified and majestic, and its running script is vigorous and powerful, which has a great influence on later generations. ?

4. Su Dongpo?

Su Shi was a literary leader in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, and made great achievements in poetry, ci, writing, calligraphy and painting. Vertical and horizontal text; The poem has a wide range of themes, is fresh and vigorous, is good at using exaggerated metaphors and has a unique style. Also known as "Su Huang" with Huang Tingjian. ?

Structural characteristics of running script

1, both sizes. That is, each word presents a different size, and there is a pen-to-pen connection of a word. The connection between words is both true and intentional, and there is a connection between them.

2. Combination of contraction and extension. Generally short-term collection, long-term release; Back and front, side and front; Most of them are left hand, right hand, upper right hand and lower left hand, but they can also be converted to each other. Left-handed and right-handed, top-handed and bottom-handed are not excluded.

3, the density is decent. Generally, it is dense on the top and sparse on the bottom, dense on the left and sparse on the right, and dense on the inside and sparse on the outside. The middle palace is compact, the white space in the box is as small as possible, and the white space of the circled strokes is as small as possible. On the layout, the word spacing is tight, the line spacing is wide, vigorous and powerful, and the colors are bright.

4. Mix colors. Running script writing should be easy, lively and fast, and master the combination of illness and stagnation, movement and static. The ink color arrangement should be strong at the beginning and dry at the end. The lines are long and thin, short and thick, moderate in thickness and alternating in depth. It's similar to cursive, but it's not so grassy.