In Chinese calligraphy, hard-pen calligraphy is written with a fountain pen.
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Hard-pen calligraphy is a bright pearl in the garden of calligraphy art. Its writing tools include pens, gel pens, art pens, pencils, chalks, etc., using ink or powder media as the main carrier to express the writing skills of Chinese characters.
It has the characteristics of easy carrying, fast writing, and wide use value. The visual difference between it and brush calligraphy lies in the thickness or slenderness of the strokes, which is like removing the flesh and leaving the bones. However, the imaging principles and movement techniques are very different, and they are two different movement modes.
Hard-pen calligraphy is divided into the art of hard-pen calligraphy and practical hard-pen calligraphy. The former mainly emphasizes artistry, while the latter mainly emphasizes practicality. The artistry of hard-pen calligraphy mainly expresses the writer's understanding and feelings of the art of calligraphy through changes in lines and structures. It pursues beauty, emotion, interest, artistic conception, personality, etc.
Practical hard-pen calligraphy, that is, daily writing, is mainly practical and easy to write and recognize. The key is to write quickly and standardly, so practical hard-pen calligraphy is mainly based on running script. of.
The characteristics of hard-pen calligraphy are mainly compared with brush calligraphy. 1. Because the tip of a hard pen is made of relatively hard material, its lines do not change as much as a soft pen - a brush. 2. Since the hard pens commonly used are mainly fountain pens, the lines are much more subtle than those of a brush. Therefore, the font size is much smaller, even smaller than the small regular script of the brush; third, due to the material of the pen, the hard pen is easier to control than the brush.
It is based on running script and borrows part of cursive writing to meet the needs of daily work, study and life. Mainly with fountain pens, practical hard-pen calligraphy mainly emphasizes practicality, but not too much emphasis on artistry. Practical hard-pen calligraphy only needs to be easy to write and recognize. The key is to write quickly and standardly. The characteristic of running script is that it is easy to write and can be written quickly. Standard running script is also easy to recognize. Therefore, practical hard-pen calligraphy is based on Mainly running script.