In recent years, popular calligraphy styles have hit the hard-pen calligraphy world like a flu. In order to highlight their personal style, some creators do not hesitate to modify the structure of calligraphy fonts as they wish, boldly converting standardized Chinese characters one by one. Through exaggeration, deformation, tilt and other means, the format of the traditional calligraphy structure is changed. The "standardization" and "classicization" of "standardization" and "classification" are eliminated by sweeping the dots with the pen, boldly using the combination of dots, lines, and surfaces to pursue a sense of power and movement, and write some works that look like books but not books. Due to the impact of this trend, many hard-pen calligraphers and hard-pen calligraphy enthusiasts are wandering between tradition and popular modernity. Nowadays, calligraphy innovation is also a hot topic, so some people use the slogan of innovation, but are blown away by the popular trend. Broken apart, lost in the path of books. As a result, the hardcore industry will now enter the popular stage. In this era of popularity, creators who innovate in hard-pen calligraphy may fall into the whirlpool of popularity accidentally. Therefore, a question is placed in front of us: How do we innovate hard-tipped calligraphy?
1. The meaning of innovation in hard-tipped calligraphy
With the development of society, hard-tipped calligraphy has become an indispensable artistic object in people’s lives and work. Nowadays, people have a strong desire to give an existing calligraphy a new look or to write a new calligraphy style that is in line with the spirit of the times. That is, a new school forms a new style, making hard-pen calligraphy from ancient times to modern times. Summarizing the discussions of ancient and modern calligraphers, we define innovation in hard-pen calligraphy as: innovating on the basis of calligraphy tradition to express individuality, and ultimately produce new social The activity or process of hard-pen calligraphy of value is the highest form of hard-pen calligraphy.
2. Hard-pen calligraphy relies on innovation, and innovation must be rooted in tradition
We all know that the earliest calligraphy was oracle bone inscriptions, and later there were big seal script, small seal script, Qin Li and Han Li , Zhangcao, Jincao, Zhenshu, etc. Why did people at that time not only use oracle bone inscriptions, but also wanted to have seal scripts? If we return each calligraphy style to a specific historical period and examine it, we will find that the emergence of each calligraphy style and appearance is the product of innovation, and is an innovation that mutates the original calligraphy style and appearance.
The "Lanting Preface" written by Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was later called "the best running script in the world". It has greater influence than the seal script, official script, cursive script and regular script that existed before. It has lasted for hundreds of years. It has become a model for many later generations to learn from. We can feel Wang Xizhi's contribution. On the basis of tradition, Wang Xizhi broke away from the inherent things and thought of a new expression method of pen and ink. He has tried to imitate and study what has already been accomplished, but he has not just followed the example of the ancients. He explored innovations in the various calligraphy techniques of Qin and Han dynasty official seal scripts and folk calligraphy. After artistic practice and ideological sublimation, his way of thinking jumped out of the original limitations and expanded, so he had new pursuits, new techniques, and The new creation formed the best form of that era.
It can be seen that if the book wants to be new, the law must be new; if the law wants to be new, the mind must be new. The new book and the new law are at the same time and are connected and combined. Both must be based on new concepts. Calligraphers have a psychological desire for novelty, desire and pursuit of innovation, and then they can have innovation in artistic practice. Only with practical innovation can innovation be possible and successful.
3. Innovation must be based on aesthetic principles
As we all know, beauty is the common characteristic of all art. Without the characteristic of beauty, art will lose its value of existence. Hard-tipped calligraphy is a complex art. The success of a hard-tipped calligraphy work depends on whether it has aesthetic value. If a work has no aesthetic appreciation value, even if it has perfect skills, it is not a successful work. Therefore, innovation in hard-tipped calligraphy must be based on aesthetic principles.
The beauty of calligraphy is not fabricated. Although every piece of calligraphy has its own personality and characteristics, although the aesthetic angle is different, the interest of the times is different, and the requirements for innovation are different, the beauty of calligraphy is unique and beautiful. Principles cannot be ignored, and the aesthetic principles of calligraphy should be embedded in the entire process of innovation. Beauty also lies in creation. The beauty of ancient calligraphy is the product of innovation. If people today copy it, it is the same as imitating others. Innovation in hard-tipped calligraphy is an arduous exploration. There is no existing way to go. It needs to follow the choices of "new". Fight your way through thousands of rocks and ravines that you have never experienced before.
Any kind of specific beauty cannot be repeated.
Only by learning the word "wang" without adhering to the word "wang" and relying on the achievements of the predecessors as a springboard can we enter a new realm of beauty. Wang Xianzhi did not copy the great king, but renovated his teachings, and then he and the great king were called "two kings". In history, it is difficult for people to use seal script, Li script, Cao script, Xing script, and Kai script as rulers to evaluate and measure the calligraphy works of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou such as Bada, Jinnong, and Zheng Banqiao. Because it is difficult for people to tell which family they inherited. Some people ridiculed them as "weirds", but today, people no longer ridicule them, but worship them as "weirds".
Some people may ask, does it mean that innovation in calligraphy is the so-called "strange book"? The "weird" here should be distinguished from the weird books in today's popular calligraphy style. The art of calligraphy has certain norms formed during its own emergence, evolution, and development. Without its prescriptiveness, without traditional living things, without "calligraphy", without "method", and without the trajectory of the development history of calligraphy, Calligraphy has become a passive infrastructure, and innovation is achieved with a large stroke of the pen. Today's popular style can often only be controlled by people with profound knowledge and innovative spirit. It has a strong contemporary character and is especially in line with the taste of modern people. It is too deliberate and lacks natural interest. What is this kind of calligraphy called? Weird? It has a different meaning from the Yangzhou Eight Weirds.
4. Innovation must be guided by innovative thinking
Calligraphy innovation must first have innovative thinking. Modern psychology believes that thinking activity is an advanced psychological activity. In thinking activities, various psychological factors have a profound impact on the results of thinking. The most obvious manifestation of innovative thinking is that it breaks through conventions, boldly explores the inner connections of things, is marked by novelty, originality and pioneering, and creates new theories, new techniques, new forms, and new styles as the material achievements of thinking.
People's psychological activities often have such characteristics. Psychological activities often follow the trajectory that people have become accustomed to, and some psychological activities that violate conventions and stereotypes are regarded as "reverse psychology" ?, rebellious psychology is prevalent in the fields of life art, and the art of calligraphy, which combines the movement of lines and the combination of points, lines and surfaces, is no exception. People's boredom with hard-written works that are full of originality and stereotyped is a manifestation of rebellious psychology.
Looking forward to today’s Chinese hard-pen calligraphy world, it can be seen from the 7th Wenhua Cup National Hard-pen Calligraphy Ranking Competition and the 9th Aihua Cup Chinese Fountain Pen Calligraphy Competition that a large number of young and middle-aged calligraphers are struggling to rise. One of the greatest characteristics of their calligraphy is that their calligraphy relies on tradition but does not stick to tradition. Their calligraphy paths not only follow the origins of later calligraphy, but also each take their own path in virgin lands that have not been occupied or experienced by the ancients or others. They respect and promote ancient calligraphy, but they do not blindly worship or copy it. They are good at putting the calligraphy of each era back to that era to examine, and thus appreciate that the tradition itself comes from innovation and reflection on the existing calligraphy at that time. Inheriting tradition without being rigidly bound to it shows the characteristics of young and middle-aged hard-pen calligraphers: the calligraphy is in accordance with the law but does not adhere to the law.
5. Innovation must be good at rebellion in order to innovate from the heart
The development and innovation of the art of calligraphy, the evolution of calligraphy styles, and the variety of changes in calligraphy require constant affirmation and constant denial. , it requires constant inheritance and constant sublation.
Every calligrapher who wants to make achievements will clearly realize that there is no such thing as perfection. Innovation in calligraphy is a painful choice and a manifestation of rebellious psychology. , is also a concrete manifestation of the vitality of calligraphy. Innovative thinking embodies the active role of thinking in human understanding of traditional calligraphy and breakthroughs in traditional calligraphy. Chinese calligraphy has lasted for thousands of years and has developed in various styles and styles. This is all because some calligraphers from generation to generation are brave and good at innovating. They are dissatisfied with the existing and reverse the existing. The result of the combination of creative thinking and innovative practice.
Giving a rational understanding and evaluation of today's fashion and innovation is an important task in today's "hard-tipped calligraphy craze" and has very urgent guiding significance for the innovation and healthy development of hard-tipped calligraphy.