Appreciating calligraphy is not only to understand the ingenuity and skill of stippling, structure and composition, as well as the inheritance, genre and style of works, but more importantly, to feel the temperament, emotion and aesthetic pursuit of calligraphers through works. Calligraphers rely on their hands and thoughts to create, while appreciators rely on their eyesight to explore and discover the life and soul contained in their works, which is a kind of re-creation. The effect of this re-creation depends on the knowledge, cultivation, experience and mood of the viewer.
To appreciate calligraphy, we should not only have a macro grasp of the works, such as momentum, spirit, white cloth, etc., but also have a subtle observation, such as using pen, ink, structure, lines, etc. Appreciate the quality of lines, from which we can observe the pen and ink and brushwork of the author when he creates. Secondly, the Chinese character structure combined with line stippling and painting is interesting and philosophical in artistic modeling. The third is white cloth, including knot words, qi and composition. The fourth is spirit, which refers to the spiritual temperament and style of calligraphy.
Spirit is a faithful record of the author's spiritual realm, which is closely related to the author's emotion, personality and cultivation. Excellent calligraphy works must be full of beauty and spirit. Appreciators should understand the body and capture the spirit. The artistic style of calligraphy is first manifested in the unique overall style and unique artistic conception of the work, which is most closely related to the calligrapher's aesthetic orientation and artistic temperament, and is the result of the calligrapher's artistic personality publicity.
The artistic style of calligraphy is the artistic characteristics and creative personality of artists in their creation. Because of their different life experiences, artistic accomplishment, personality characteristics, aesthetic taste and personality, calligraphers have their own characteristics in the choice of calligraphy style and expression techniques, thus forming different artistic styles.
Style can also best show a person's temperament and mental outlook. This is also a high-energy reflection of thousands of years of history accumulated in the hearts of calligraphers, which reflects the subtleties of lines and gives people infinite reverie. Hegel said: "Style generally means that an artist fully displays some characteristics of his personality in his expression method, and his style is tortuous."