Is it necessary to learn calligraphy before learning Chinese painting?

I'm reading the book Legend of the Condor Heroes recently, hehe. Take this as an example. Hong Qigong is a master of external skill training, and the eighteen palms of the dragon is the acme of external skill, with amazing power. Teaching Guo Jing quickly improved his skills. What, the four ghosts of the Yellow River can't beat it, and then it took a second, haha. And Guo Jing is a bit stupid, and he can learn to fight dragons with eighteen palms. One of the biggest reasons is that he has the internal skills taught by Quan Zhen Ma Yu. Okay, hehe, it's just an analogy. Calligraphy is like internal strength to Chinese painting. Of course, this is only a part of the internal work required by Chinese painting. Other painting skills besides painting, such as literary accomplishment and perception ability, are also very important. This is all internal work. However, we can see that the answer to your question must be superfluous, because at first, Guo Jing couldn't do any internal work, he could learn the Kung Fu of the Seven eccentrics in the south of the Yangtze River, and he could beat others. In the final analysis, Chinese painting is painting and plastic arts, and each stroke of calligraphy develops and continues with time. It is a kind of temporal art, somewhat similar to music. So it's not necessary.

But why does everyone emphasize the importance of calligraphy to Chinese painting? Intuitively speaking, the performance of our traditional Chinese painting is the four-in-one of poetry, calligraphy and printing. Poetry is generally inscribed and stamped. Poor handwriting directly affects the level of painting. But this can be remedied If your handwriting is not good, just say your name, hehe. Obviously this is not the root cause. The fundamental reason is that the modeling of Chinese painting is done with pen and ink, and the level of pen and ink directly affects the level of your Chinese painting. The best embodiment of pen and ink is calligraphy, especially on the pen. If you are good at calligraphy, just as Guo Jing learned the first-class internal skills, you will soon be able to draw the country well. It is also very important that calligraphy and painting are in the same strain, and the appreciation of China's calligraphy and painting is quite consistent. There's no way to start this. That's a matter for university professors, hehe. In a word, both calligraphy and Chinese painting pay attention to meaning and rhyme. , but the light of the shape. Then people who know calligraphy will soon enter the aesthetic territory of Chinese painting, which is the same as internal work.

Therefore, it is inevitable that if you learn Chinese painting to a certain extent, you will learn calligraphy.

Take jing elder brother for example. We can see that he didn't learn martial arts with external skills at first, but learned internal skills well and then learned one plus one. But learning external skills can't be greatly improved. An expert will teach him internal skills right away. It is difficult to improve after learning a little internal skill. Another expert like Hong Qigong teaches external skills, which is similar. Another urchin teaches internal skills. Do you see it?

The same is true of learning Chinese painting. You can improve your modeling ability, learn some calligraphy and do some small creations while getting in touch with master works. In a few years, you will find that the original is a bit comprehensive, and then you will enter the door. After that, it is the process of Wan Li Road reading thousands of books. Then you will find that only when the nature of the teacher can be improved can you learn.

There is another realm that is popular now: madness. When you feel this way in painting, you are likely to stick to it. It will force you to learn a lot to understand problems and solve madness. Hehe, there must be calligraphy among them. So don't worry, draw boldly.