Admittedly, established statutes sometimes rigidly restrict calligraphy, but first-class calligraphers all come out of statutes, "wearing Han and Tang costumes and dancing the style of the times." Only in this way can we become a real calligrapher who does whatever he wants in life. ? Yang Zhenning said in China Culture and Science: "I have a friend Xiong Bingming, who is a calligrapher, painter, sculptor, aesthetic theorist and literary critic. He wrote a book that has been reprinted, called "China and calligraphy theory System", which said: "The core of China culture is philosophy; The core of China culture is calligraphy. "He said this because calligraphy can best embody the spirit of abstraction and concentration." Shen, a great calligrapher in the Republic of China, said, "I have made little achievements after studying calligraphy for ten years." The wise Zen master of Sui Dynasty did not go downstairs to learn calligraphy for forty years.
Learning calligraphy is a long way, so learn more calligraphy!
Only by being familiar with the history of calligraphy and scanning ancient classics can we really improve our appreciation ability and have a more correct understanding of what calligraphy is. Read more books. In Song Dynasty, Huang Tingjian said that "a scholar-bureaucrat can do everything in his life, but he should not be vulgar". How to be refined requires reading more books to improve his academic qualifications and connotation. Calligraphy has reached a very high stage, which is actually a manifestation of thought, temperament, emotion, spirit and personality cultivation. Great calligraphers in ancient times were also great scholars in universities. ?
In the mid-1950s, when Picasso saw a friend from China writing Chinese characters on the beach, he was attracted by the wonderful combination of abstract lines in Chinese characters. He said: If I was born in China, I think I will become a calligrapher instead of a painter. I hope to write my paintings. He also said: "Art is universal. If you write a picture in words, you can also draw a poem. "Since then, calligraphy works have been hung in his apartment, which shows that he is completely convinced of the oriental abstract line art. ..