Wang Xizhi is good at more than one font, mainly running script, cursive script, and regular script.
Wang Xizhi's representative work in running script is "Lanting Preface", his representative work in regular script is "Le Yi Lun", and his representative work in cursive script is "Seventeen Posts". The characteristics of Wang Xizhi's fonts are also relatively delicate and fresh, and the brushwork is very exquisite. The strokes are free and elegant, and the strokes are euphemistic and implicit, like flowing clouds and flowing water.
Wang Xizhi studied the body movements carefully, imitated them with his heart, followed them with his hands, picked up the strengths of many people, prepared all kinds of styles, and cultivated them in one furnace. He broke away from the writing style of Han and Wei Dynasties and became his own style with far-reaching influence. The style is peaceful and natural, the writing style is euphemistic and subtle, and it is beautiful and graceful. In the history of calligraphy, he and Zhong Yao are collectively known as the "Zhong Wang", and his son Wang Xianzhi is collectively known as the "Two Kings".
Characteristics
Wang Xizhi has his own unique aspect in the processing of horizontal folding. Especially compared with later calligraphers, Wang Xizhi’s horizontal folding processing is basically based on twisting and twisting. , and turning are supplemented by turning. Except for Yan Zhenqing of the Tang Dynasty, who sometimes used twisting and twisting, other calligraphers almost always used turning techniques in horizontal folding, making the turning technique rare.
"Chu Yue Tie" and "Auntie's Tie", in these two posts by Wang Xizhi, especially in "Auntie", all the words involve horizontal folds, such as "month", "日" ", the two words "dun", "shou", "qing", "pain", "zi", "yin" and other characters, none of the horizontal folds use the twisting brushwork, and almost all use the twisting brushwork.
Since this brushwork is derived from the zhuan in seal script and official script, the horizontal folding lines are solid, thick, simple and solemn. At the same time, this brushwork not only gives the lines a solid texture, but also makes Wang Xizhi's works have very few "gui angles" in the horizontal folds, ensuring that the lines are full of breath, full and not leaking.