The "God" in calligraphy works is not only the inner spirit of thoughts, feelings, aesthetic interests and so on expressed by calligraphy and painting artists through artistic means. This kind of breath has both the characteristics of the times and the author's personality. This spirit full of beauty in works of art is also influenced by the skillful skills of artists or calligraphers, and then passed on to the appreciator in the form of lines, colors, sounds and languages, which makes the appreciator's mind shocked by * * * and experience a feeling.
Although some clever counterfeiters can imitate the formal features of a painting and calligraphy work to a chaotic degree, they can never copy the inner spirit of the original author.
For example, Zhang Daqian's imitation of Shi Tao's painting did not show any problems in artistic form, but it did not have the inherent charm of Shi Tao's painting. For this kind of imitation, as long as we understand or master the inner charm of Shi Tao's art, we can distinguish the authenticity according to the breath, so people who are good at learning can only distinguish the authenticity by looking at the spirit; People who are good at returning will only be interested in it, so as to distinguish between high and low.
Mr. Nan Xuan said: "Poems are as deep and shallow as flowers: those that are gorgeous and leak are shallow;" If you mean charm, it is implicit, hidden in the room, but indifferent in appearance. If there is no exterior decoration, it will be deep. " Calligraphy is the same, quality is better than writing, spirit is better than form, meaning is better than law, and it is helpful to understand calligraphers deeply.