Experts and scholars agree that Wang Dongling is an artist with calligraphy as his essence. His great writing madness beyond the limit is not only based on inheriting the essence of tradition, but also makes calligraphy art turn to contemporary expression with extreme shocking power. This exhibition highlights two characteristics: First, the author wrote China's great classic texts with sincere calligraphy, such as the Book of Changes, Analects of Confucius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Tanjing, etc. At the same time, he spread the Book of Songs, Lisao, Tang and Song Ci, and even contemporary pop songs with romantic calligraphy feelings. Secondly, the broad spirit of China's traditional calligraphy is expressed through modern artistic concepts, which endows the creation and mounting of works with strong professionalism, artistry and modernity. At the same time, it also contains two aspects of contemporary significance, one is the spiritual value of modern freedom revealed by the traditional carefree feelings, and the other is that it is better to be alone than to be in the artistic world of public space. Experts and scholars also believe that Wang Dongling's art has built a bridge from traditional art to contemporary culture, and contributed to solving the contradiction between tradition and modernity.
Wang Dongling, a native of Rudong, Jiangsu Province, was born in February 1945. Director, professor and doctoral supervisor of Modern Calligraphy Research Center of China Academy of Fine Arts, director of China Calligraphers Association, vice chairman of Zhejiang Calligraphers Association and president of Zhejiang Calligraphy Education Research Association.
"Calligraphy will not be lost in the contemporary era." Wang Dongling, a famous calligrapher, recently expressed this view in his personal calligraphy exhibition seminar, and he himself constantly used his calligraphy practice to explain contemporary writing.
At the just-concluded "Wang Dongling Calligraphy Art Exhibition", Wang Dongling showed the profoundness of China traditional calligraphy with modern artistic concepts, especially the Book of Changes with more than 20,000 words and 5000 words, which covered the main wall of the circular hall of China Art Museum, with a scale of 4.95 meters and a length of 37.5 meters. This is the first time that such a cursive work with many characters is written.