-Wang Zhuo and her calligraphy of Zhongshan Wang.
Lu Yongjian
At present, in a prosperous period in the history of calligraphy development, calligraphers' creative ideas are extremely active, artistic forms are brought forth new ones, and the original forms of works and habits of aesthetic stereotypes can no longer meet people's ever-changing development needs. The renewal of creative ideas and the change of works' forms have made some calligraphers come out of universality and show the uniqueness and purity of art. The "prototype" that can best stimulate calligraphers' imagination in this period is the embryonic form in the transition from the old typical to the new typical. The character "King Zhongshan" is one of them. It has no mysterious and untouchable sense of historical distance among the six figures in the pre-Qin period. It is the product of the transition of the Great Small Seal, which is tolerant of the two seal types and has the mystery of "Great Jane", just like the pre-Qin literature in China literature.
Xunzi said: "There are many good scholars, and Cang Xie's solo biography is also one." Cang Xie, as one of the "good scholars" in ancient times, is famous all over the world. Wang Zhuo was also influenced by family style since he was a child. He read Shuo Wen Jie Zi, studied Yi Shan Bei, and studied under Li Si, Li, and Li. I occasionally get Wang Yuanhu of Zhongshan, Wang Fanghu of Zhongshan and Wang Ding of Zhongshan, and I can't put it down. However, Zhongshan Wang only has more than 400 words, which has great limitations for calligraphy creation. In order to find out its inherent laws and create new words, she focused on the artistic style of Zhongshan Wang's ancient characters from an artistic point of view, and used the principles of archaeology and history to combine Zhongshan Wang's big seal with Tiexian's small seal, drawing lessons from bronze inscriptions. After more than three years of hard study, she created freely and soared freely.
In 20 1 1 the 10th national exhibition of calligraphy and seal cutting, nave, an extract of thousands of words, became famous in one fell swoop and won the Excellence Award (the highest award). This work is a combination of multiple pictures, with strong visual tension, profound calligraphy skills, subtle brushwork, smooth and vigorous, dry and meaningful, vivid charm, noble taste, charming and chic, elegant and swaying, like a small bridge flowing water, rich and smooth wind. As far as Wang Zhongshan's calligraphy creation is concerned, his works carry forward the past and forge ahead into the future.
Nave's works in "Excerpts of Thousand Characters" concentrate on the ancient Chinese characters of King Shan, and are the works with the largest number of words created in the calligraphy style of King Zhongshan so far, which, in a sense, fills a gap in philology.
The ancients said that art should "write its own uniqueness" and emphasized that artistic creation should have outstanding personality, so that original works can have vitality. Shi Tao said: "Learn from the past, brush and ink should follow the times, this language can be correct, and learning can get the essence of the ancients." There are two ways to learn books in ancient and modern times. One is to learn from others' strong points, learn from each other's strong points and accumulate them, just like drama, which combines various artistic means, but it is independent; Second, I have a soft spot, sharpen my skills and go to tall buildings alone.
Wang Zhuo belongs to the latter. She was born in a scholarly family and holds a double master's degree in arts and sciences. She is knowledgeable and takes "Tao as the aim, virtue as the support, benevolence as the support and art as the tour" as her responsibility. She believes that calligraphy and literature, poetry and seal cutting are a whole and an independent style. Calligraphers must first be poets. This does not mean that calligraphers must write poems, but that there are poems in their works.
Wang Zhuo's inscriptions and postscript are poetic and can be roughly divided into three categories: first, they are lyrical about things; The second is the inscription; The third is to mourn the ancient antiquities. For example, the inscription "Excerpt of Thousand-character Works" reads: "Thousand-character works are four-character long poems with beautiful rhyme, elegant writing and gorgeous rhetoric. The full text consists of 250 sentences, one sentence for every four words, without emphasizing every word, and each sentence rhymes. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, most famous calligraphers have thousands of works of different styles handed down, so they have a unique position in the cultural history of China. " Another example is nave in Qi Baishi's Ten Litchi Poems, which is tight at the top and loose at the bottom, slender, graceful, graceful, concise, regular, quiet and vivid, showing charm in a quiet place and elegance in an ethereal place. Its inscription reads: "Master Qi Baishi traveled to Qinzhou for three years in middle-aged and old age, and forged a profound friendship with the people of Qinzhou. He has to taste litchi in Qinzhou to draw it. The more paintings he has, the more poems he has written. It is the honor of Qinzhou literati to explore and carry forward the litchi culture of Master Baishi. " Between the lines, the spirits are flying, fascinating and stirring. Her inscription, like that of Zheng Banqiao, a painter in the Qing Dynasty, is not a comment on the book, but the birth of the book, the expansion of its content and the deepening of its artistic conception.
Wang Zhuo's calligraphy works have a poet's temperament, paying attention to the effect of calligraphy itself, but not satisfied with the aesthetic taste of calligraphy itself. She believes that calligraphy is a battle of the soul, and every time she creates, she should write her respect in her heart. To understand her calligraphy works, we must first understand the poetry and poetic heart in the inscriptions and postscript, find the internal relationship between the words and the inscriptions and postscript, expand the aesthetic space, and arouse the resonance of the author's mind.
Wang Zhuo is very smart, has a wide range of hobbies and has excellent academic performance. Shortly after graduating from college, she joined the Book Association, Writers Association and Poetry Association. She writes not only good handwriting, but also good poetry. One of them, "Actually, I don't want to touch you", was recorded as a song and widely circulated after it was published by Deutsche Welle Radio. As a cultural person, his calligraphy belongs to literati calligraphy, and Wang Zhuo is one of the outstanding successors and pioneers. It is not easy to become a qualified scholar calligrapher, and it must have four elements: character, knowledge, talent and thought. Therefore, the comprehensive quality of literati calligraphers is relatively high and comprehensive, which is not possessed by ordinary people. Judging from his calligraphy practice and comprehensive strength, Wang Zhuo is undoubtedly an excellent literati calligrapher.
Cai Wang NV Zhuo
Yu Guolian
With the prosperity and development of contemporary seal cutting, in the past 30 years, contemporary seal cutting has also entered an unprecedented heyday since the Han Dynasty, with a hundred flowers blooming, famous experts coming forth in large numbers, experts like a cloud, and stars shining, among which Wang Zhuo, winner of the 10th National Exhibition, is a dazzling star.
Wang Zhuo's seal script is based on the inscription of Wang Qi in Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum during the Warring States Period. Sun Yat-sen and Wilson Notoginseng were unearthed in 1977, with a short time. Compared with Qin, Chuan, Pre-Qin Biography, Qing Biography and Oracle bone inscriptions, the inscription of Sun Yat-sen's deed is unpopular. The inscription of Zhongshan into the book began with Xu, a master of seal cutting in Xishu, a former sage. The exhibition "Inscription of Wang Qi" in Zhongshan has won numerous awards, but most of them are won by digital couplets, and the long and giant authors are rare. The reason is that the inscription of Wang Qi in Zhongshan is only a few hundred words. Unless you have a deep knowledge of ancient philology and seal script, it is difficult to create, so you can only copy it according to the sample set. It is no accident that Wang Zhuo won the Excellence Award (the highest award) in the 10th National Art Exhibition for his seal script "Thousand Characters". For the creation of seal script, if there is no sample for reference and copying, it is very important to draw inferences from others. As a double master of arts and sciences, Wang Zhuo is just outstanding in this respect, so he can make a seal script "Thousand Characters" on the basis of hundreds of inscriptions in Wang Qiming, Zhongshan, which means that he has built a contemporary seal script system in Zhongshan and Wang Qiming, and has made some contributions to contemporary seal script creation. However, the structure of individual radicals in his seal script is not harmonious enough, such as "three points of water". How to improve and perfect is what he needs to work hard. At present, being proficient in one subject and being good at many subjects has become one of the common characteristics of winners of national exhibitions. The main body of Wang Zhuo's award-winning work Qian Zi Wen is seal script, and the regular script and running script as its components are also of high level. Wang Zhuo's success lies in his ability to unify the styles of running script and seal script and make innovations.
Looking at the cultural literacy of contemporary young and middle-aged calligraphers from the winning works of the 10th National Exhibition, we can find that highly educated and interdisciplinary calligraphers account for a large proportion. Wang Zhuo, who graduated from computer science with a master's degree in e-government and public administration, is one of them. In the past twenty years, calligraphy has been separated from the fine arts discipline, and thousands of junior colleges, undergraduates, masters and doctors are engaged in calligraphy work. However, in the creation of calligraphy, the graduates of calligraphy courses who have undergone professional training have not shown much advantage. On the contrary, the proportion of highly educated and interdisciplinary calligraphy award-winning authors is larger, which proves that Lu Fangweng's "Kung Fu is beyond poetry" is also applicable to calligraphy. In addition, the college entrance examination competition proves that science and engineering graduates have stronger learning ability than liberal arts students. After several years of undergraduate and postgraduate study and training, their spatial imagination and logical thinking ability have been further improved. For example, if they are interested in calligraphy since childhood and use the Internet as a tool, the prosperity of book publishing can be supported by a large number of pictures and materials, making it possible for non-calligraphy professionals to surpass calligraphy professionals and achieve creative success. If they are gifted and diligent, it is not surprising that they won the prize.
Wang Zhuo's success is also closely related to his calligraphy direction. Under the guidance of the banner of quality education, parents are enthusiastic about their children's learning calligraphy. There are often many girls who learn well in primary school, but after adulthood, few women make achievements in calligraphy. From Sun Xiaoyun, Wei Siqin and others, it can be seen that adult women are more likely to succeed in learning fine print, small line and iron thread seal calligraphy, which is also proved by Wang Zhuo's award. The scientific study of Wang Zhuo's calligraphy stems from his deep family background. His father is a famous bookstore in Qinzhou, Guangxi, with an extraordinary eye. Wang Zhuo studied less calligraphy, so he can "shine on you is better than blue". Especially in recent years, Wang Zhuo has focused on the inscription of Wang Qi in Zhongshan, and achieved initial results in only three years. It can be seen that direction is more important than hard work!
Among the award-winning authors in the national exhibition, Wang Zhuo can be regarded as a newcomer in terms of qualifications and historical achievements, but in terms of strength, Wang Zhuo is not comparable to ordinary veterans. If you can calm down, don't be tired of fame and fortune, and study hard, you can go to by going up one flight of stairs.