Zhang Xu is free and easy, generous, outstanding, brilliant and knowledgeable. Du Fu befriended Li Bai and He Hao, and was listed as the "Eight Immortals of Drinking". He is a master of cursive script with great personality. Because he is often drunk, clamoring for madness, then writing books, and even writing with his hair dipped in ink, he has the nickname "Zhang Dian".
After Huai Su inherited and developed his brushwork, he also got his name from cursive script and called it "drunk".
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Zhang Xu's Calligraphy Achievements
Calligraphy thought
In the aspect of calligraphy thought, Zhang Xu advocated learning from nature and emphasized seeking inspiration from nature and human social life. In Zhang Xu's eyes, all natural images and all traces of life are the objects of learning from nature, which can inspire his creative inspiration.
According to historical records, Zhang Xu enriched the thought of white cloth structure from "contending for Tao", gained the inspiration of speed, weight, richness and thickness of brushwork from "following the wind", and found the compact, powerful, reasonable and ethereal charm of wild grass calligraphy from "sword dance", which made the calligraphy have a qualitative change.
From these records, we can see that Zhang is good at observing objective things, combining objective natural images with personal subjective feelings, and understanding the way of calligraphy from all kinds of beings in nature. It is a combination of objectivity and subjectivity, and the combination of natural beauty and artistic beauty just fits the "natural" way in Laozi and Zhuangzi's thoughts.
With the eyes of a real artist, Zhang Xu searched for symbols corresponding to his emotions and personality in nature and life, and integrated the situation of everything in the world with his subjective modality.
Let's indulge in painting and take techniques as the means of spiritual expression, so as to turn everything from technology to Taoism into our own artistic language, and finally form the expression form and style of Weeds. ?
artistic style
According to historical records, the most prominent feature of Zhang Xu's calligraphy style is "wildness". ?
On the one hand, Zhang Xu's escapism is manifested in his writing state. Influenced by Taoism, Zhang Xu pursued the same wild spiritual realm as Wang Xizhi and other Wei and Jin scholars. The characteristics of natural alcoholism further made Zhang Xu have the same spiritual orientation as Wang Xizhi, a book sage.
As far as the origin of art is concerned, Yu Shinan, Lu Jianzhi, Lu Yanyuan and Zhang Xu are in the same strain. Zhang Xu came from Lu Yanyuan, so he can learn from his achievements in calligraphy since the early Tang Dynasty. Yu Shinan is the inheritor of the artistic school of "Two Kings" (Wang Xizhi's Harmony), and Zhang inherited the calligraphy art of "Now Grass" of the two Kings through the relationship between master and apprentice.
At the same time, Wang Xianzhi's calligraphy is more prosaic than Wang Xizhi's, and the cursive script is bold and profound, which greatly shows the characteristics of cursive script. Zhang Xu absorbed and developed this cursive script through the relationship between teachers and students, and created a new style.
Zhang Xu accepted and absorbed his cursive art, and pursued the realm of "self-motivation, flying sand and stones", and pursued a fast and strange interest. Zhang Xu poured the artist's irresistible passion into his works, making it coherent and free, sometimes turning back with his head down, and sometimes turning over.
Sometimes if it's windy, Ma Benteng; Or as steady as Mount Tai; Or gurgle like running water. At the same time, Zhang Xu's cursive script can be integrated into personal thoughts and feelings and personal feelings about various natural changes such as storms and lightning, which is very interesting outside the words. In addition, Zhang Xu's cursive script has been sublimated to the artistic height of expressing inner feelings with abstract stippling.
His words lurk like tigers, rise like dragons, rise like mountains and fall like springs. Therefore, Li Zehou called it "like a dragon and snake, combining rigidity with softness, full of elastic vitality, strange and unpredictable, continuous and careless structure and layout, unpredictable and unstoppable modal momentum".
Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhang Xu