Mr. Ling Haitao is obsessed with calligraphy, and he tries to use Weiqi to "learn the formula and forget it" as a metaphor to learn the way to learn books. His album is a concise book of be adept at, full of vitality. With Liu Xizai's book in Qing Dynasty, he said, "Books are expensive, but God is different from other gods. If you enter other gods, I will become ancient; To observe Mr. Haitao's calligraphy, it is the best presentation of his cultivation and temperament to turn the ancient into the new. (Speech of the 4th China Lanting Calligraphy Award Jury)
Ling Haitao-The confidence in his bones is not as generate as "Haitao", but is masked by the "tradition" similar to his smile. Haitao's pen and ink are supported by an inexplicable force, highlighting the tension and impact. Therefore, with the support of both academic and traditional art forms, its connotation and space are enough to make people daydream and speculate. (Director of Wang Yazhou China Calligraphers Association, Vice Chairman of Anhui Calligraphers Association)
Ling Haitao's combination of inscriptions and calligraphy, clumsy and elegant, bold and informal, is good at grasping the overall situation, spatial division and restructuring are still talented, and he is resourceful and changeable without losing his statutes, giving people the beauty of strangeness. Calligraphy creation pursues the mutual reference between righteousness and strangeness, and the charm of dissipation and agility. His small cursive works are delicate and subtle, full of meaning, and the brushwork is especially correct. At the same time, it explores boldly in modeling, which contains the expectation of drawing lessons from the past and bringing forth new ones. The writing method has gradually changed from the previous intentional arrangement to the shaping of the situation, which is more fluent.
Ling Haitao, born in 1979, attracted the attention of the whole country because he won the Lanting Prize. He pays attention to speculation and self-reliance, and his works pursue sincerity and vitality, avoiding falling into dullness and cliché, which fully shows his personality, learning and thinking about life, and also shows his correct understanding of the essence of calligraphy. Of course, his traditional foundation is excellent and his formal aesthetic feeling is also very good. (promotion words of Beijing Ink and Wash Public Welfare Foundation)
No matter whether you are a famous teacher or a self-taught teacher, you are following suit. At most, you just stand on the mountainside to see the scenery, which is farther than the average person, but you always see more than those who don't stand on the peak. Only by innovation can we stand on the mountain that belongs to us. (editor-in-chief of Zen Art Club of Chundao)
Haitao is a talented calligrapher, and he made frequent appearances in professional exhibitions at a very young age, which attracted people's attention. Before studying calligraphy, Haitao studied Chinese painting, and later pointed out that "a piece of white paper is easy to write", coupled with his innate talent, he directly changed from painting to calligraphy, with few detours. A few years ago, I saw several frames of his pen landscape sketches. The lines are refined and elegant, strong and powerful, and have the quality of calligraphy. Recent reading of his new calligraphy works, although varied, does not lose the traditional brushwork and has the aesthetic feeling of contemporary form. Traditional calligraphy attaches great importance to brushwork, and too much emphasis on "fa" will inevitably inhibit the "artistic" value of calligraphy. Realizing the transformation from "calligraphy" to "calligraphy art" and placing calligraphy in the category of great art should be the direction of future calligraphy, which is also the value orientation of "modernist calligraphers" who share the same interests with Haitao. They believe that graphic art should attach importance to visual beauty and aesthetic feeling. We can't just work hard and be satisfied with the excellent clothes, but we should give full play to our personal endowment potential, absorb the nutrients in related art categories sensitively and efficiently, and constantly enrich ourselves with me as the main object and everything else as the guest. In their creation, they pay attention to the feeling of the moment, and pay attention to sending happiness and caring. In the end, I should accept Shi Tao's old saying-respect. (Editor-in-Chief, China Art Vision Network, Wang Hong)
Jump on the sea, open your chest, plough and try your feathers.
I dreamed of Lanting for three years.
Shui Xin Bobi is embroidered, and the smelting mountain is complete.
looking out of the sky, I see the autumn stars. (Zhang Benying is a member of the Chinese Poetry Society)
There's no need to argue about refining frost, and it's been 2 years of hard work.
the ink gathers the heart marks to express the meaning and harmony, and the book is clumsy and gives birth to Zen.
Chang Huai-he dreams of being a hero, and he only knows how to clear the source and embrace the tassel.
the idle clouds outside the mountain have no place to live, and the drizzly autumn colors cover up the name. (Lin Baorong, member of the Chinese Poetry Society)
My friend Ling Haitao, a happy family.
there is a romantic outside the window, and the inkstone on the desk has a long meaning.
It's never light and rich, but it's full of fragrance.
thirty years' hard work is for fun, caressing the clock king.
Remnants and broken tablets, cocoon paper and Han and Tang dynasties.
all rivers return to the sea, and the waves hide at the bottom.
looking for simplicity is far away, and the taste is boundless.
don't flatter people with vulgar words, but set a high standard and think hard.
The world loves flowers and butterflies, and the nobles in the mountains enjoy autumn frost.
before frost, the color of chrysanthemum is old, and the flavor of old chrysanthemum is cool.
ink grinds people's minds, and spring flowers and autumn moons are common.
I don't meet you at ordinary times, but I occasionally see madness.
when you meet your intimate friends, you can get drunk, and each of you can get drunk.
full of poetry and wine, writing articles smartly.
when you're drunk, your books are ten feet high, and you're dripping with joy.
The dragon and snake walk under the pale wrist, dancing like a phoenix on paper.
the pen keeps the truth, which is always soft and rigid.
it's really clever to hide in the dark, and you can make a fool of yourself.
the Lanting is full of wind, and the winding water reflects and repairs it.
Clouds and mountains are quiet and the world is vast, and the spring breeze is eternal and radiant.
Haitao naturally tied the dragon hand and went straight to Yun Fan for Canglang.
(Chen Kenian, member of China Calligraphers Association, member of Chinese Poetry Society, member of Jiangsu Literary Critics Association)
True colors of writing are flowing
—— After Ling Haitao's view on the first prize of the 4th Lanting Award
Zhou Decong (vice chairman of Hubei Calligraphers Association, president of the Art College of Three Gorges University)
Writing, as a kind of culture, has a long history, and it is accompanied by human beings. From the perspective of writing alone, contemporary people have gradually become nostalgic about the daily behavior of ancient people's writing with brush, and now it seems that expelling brush has become a practice of calligraphers' artistic creation.
The historical opportunity and living environment of China's calligraphy have been changing, with peaks and valleys, reputation and damage. However, in any case, the culture and aesthetic value it carries are irreplaceable by other literary styles. Because of this, calligraphy stands on its own in the forest of art and has won the respect of the world with its unique style.
Looking at the history of calligraphy development, writing with brush dipped in ink on paper is the most permanent. Whether it is ancient applied writing or contemporary and even future calligraphy creation, this original and authentic state will give it new humanistic connotation in the inheritance. Ling Haitao's album "Jin Dongxin's Inscriptions and Paintings" restores the inherent situation of calligraphy in a very authentic writing state. After experiencing the "visual impact" brought by "deliberate" creation, it is really delicious to see such a beautiful calligraphy album.
Is it Ling Haitao's careful design or his unintentional work that the album, the inscription and the running script fit together? When he submitted this work to the Lanting Award, I prefer to call it a thoughtful work with a perfect combination of content and form. If it is placed on the study desk as the object of three or five hobbies or playing by myself, I would rather believe that it is a habitual copying of Jin Dongxin's Inscriptions and Paintings. But in any case, Ling Haitao resolutely threw it to the judges of the Lanting Award, and the judges did not hesitate to award it as the first prize, so that more calligraphy audiences could see the charm of "gorgeous, returning to plain".
In this album, we can't see the bravado of "using one's strength to drum up one's strength", nor the deliberate production of odd stippling and boasting, nor can we see the color difference change of "colorful ink" and the style paradigm of converting to a certain tablet. There are only natural paragraphs presented with the language logic of Inscriptions and Paintings, and the "circles" and blanks formed by them. The size of the words and the density of the rules can be described as happy-go-lucky
His pen is concise, crisp, neat and even, and his marching rhythm is not exciting, which shows his leisurely writing mind. The rhyme of his words comes from the study of calligraphy, and the change comes from the North Monument. He is graceful, ups and downs, and knows the principles of singularity, density, size, vertical convergence, unevenness and strewn at random. Combining the spirit of "Bei Bei Nan Tie" with the interest of personal writing, he controls "Fa" with "Yi", thus forming his simple and elegant style of Gu Zhuo. The ancients said: "It is difficult for big characters to be dense and seamless, and it is difficult for small characters to be generous and more than enough." The album itself is small in shape, and the selected words are rich in content. Therefore, it is impossible to express passion in wild grass characters, so we can only make a "gurgling" and "naturally written" flow with a small script, and sing a leisurely "pastoral" with a soothing style and scattered words. In-depth reading, we will find that what is hidden behind the seemingly sloppy knot is the implicitness and introversion of his pen, and he interprets the "golden mean" brushwork essence of China's calligraphy in his desire to release and return. In the small running script, in the lines with small amplitude, it not only expresses a kind of forbearance and gentleness like a great scholar, but also expresses a kind of innocence and romance like a three-year-old child. How many people yearn for this lofty feeling!
At a time when writing with a brush is threatened by keyboard strokes and paper books are squeezed by electronic discs, I believe that calligraphers and enthusiasts who still have traditional humanistic feelings are willing to recite cultural classics and appreciate calligraphy art on album pages. Because this way of preserving cultural classics and the channel of calligraphy dissemination will bring people a lot of historical memories! Ling Haitao's "Jin Dongxin's Inscriptions and Paintings" plays a role in preserving culture and inheriting civilization in a certain sense, and his calligraphy will be appreciated by more people in this spread.
In the modern society full of "visual shock" everywhere, how we expect "calligraphy" to restore the true nature of culture without being profaned and subverted by too many "ideas", "behaviors" experiments "and" heavenly books "! Cultural consciousness and writing should naturally be the direction of calligraphy development. The winning text of the first prize of Ling Haitao Lanting Award will definitely bring us room for thinking. It is not necessary to win the exhibition with great success and gain the audience with eye-catching. Sometimes, the exquisite small prize is more resistant to play. This form of album can be used for tasting each part, and it can also be unfolded in turn to make a banner as a whole. When we focus on the "page" surface, the charm of its letters will come to our eyes, and when we look at the "book" page, it is like a picture of a landscape, uneven level, dense and hidden, and natural and pleasant.
Writing itself is an individual and highly experiential cultural behavior, and its contents such as "talent", "learning", "knowledge" and "ambition" are bound to return to the writer himself, which is a true portrayal of "being like a person". People who don't know calligraphy think it is "mysterious", but those who know it are convinced. Because your literary accomplishment, writing accomplishment, calligraphy accomplishment, aesthetic orientation and even personality taste will be quietly revealed in your writing, there is no way to disguise and conceal it. All posturing and "learning from the East" will eventually be ruthlessly eliminated by history.
clive bell called all arts "meaningful forms". What is the meaning of calligraphy? It is a matter of opinion, which is not only related to the writer's cultural accomplishment and personality strength, but also related to the appreciation of the reader's life experience and aesthetic experience, and more importantly, to the role and orientation of writing between people and texts. When Ling Haitao selected the text of Jin Dongxin's Inscriptions and Paintings, and wrote a book on the edge of an album with an artist's unique intuition, I guessed that the unity of the text, the book and the state of mind constituted the form "meaning" of this work.
In ancient China, there was no such thing as a "calligrapher". Those with high cultural accomplishment and good handwriting were often called "good calligraphers". In contemporary times, calligraphy has become a profession and a means for a few people to make a living. However, most people's love for calligraphy is inherited from the tradition, and it is a link in the process of human cultural education. It requires a more comprehensive understanding of five-style calligraphy, and it is better to be good at many styles at the same time. Although the main body of Ling Haitao's album Jin Dongxin's Inscriptions and Paintings is running script, the title of the cover is seal script, which shows his cultivation of ancient Chinese characters and modern Chinese characters. After the completion of his work, he started from the visual aesthetic needs, and stamped many small chapters of different sizes and shapes on the work, which played the role of enriching the color of the picture and increasing the quaint interest, "playing" the form out of the content, and returning the content to the form, which is a good view.
Many contemporary works created in the name of calligraphy contain elements of affectation, daubing, drawing and design. In fact, they deviate from the standard of calligraphy in essence. Isn't Ling Haitao's simple writing and the expression of his mind a good interpretation of the artistic essence of "from avenue to simplicity"? ! (Originally published in Calligraphy Newspaper, No.27, 213)
When calligraphy returns to the study again
—— Also on the noumenon presentation of Ling Haitao's calligraphy art
Wang Yazhou (director of China Calligraphers Association, vice chairman and secretary general of Anhui Calligraphers Association)
At present, the calligraphy world is full of investment, big exhibitions, big works, big productions and great freehand brushwork. Is the prosperity of contemporary calligraphy art presented in this state? I'm afraid I don't share your opinion. On the contrary, I think that with the change of artistic trend, with the calligraphy art constantly "grounded" and returning to the study-such a practical and beautiful topic should arouse our attention and thinking. The "study" mentioned here is not only a space noun where reading and working are located, but also a concept, a state and a state of mind.
It's quite an epiphany that this topic is triggered by Ling Haitao's first prize album of the 4th Lanting Award. Haitao's album "Jin Dongxin's Inscriptions and Paintings" is composed of twelve exquisite sketches, each of which is half a square foot. How can I win this honor? Regardless of the judges' aesthetic fatigue of "freehand brushwork", in my opinion, there are three reasons: casualness, naturalness and Jing Ya. These three trinity, complement each other: it is not clever to be spontaneous and unnatural, and it is difficult to please people if you are natural and Jing Ya, and Jing Ya is not pure if you are not spontaneous, and many classic calligraphy and ink marks of past dynasties are nothing better than that. It is precisely these three points that are the ultimate requirements of calligraphy ontology aesthetics, and it is precisely these three points that are typical symbols of the study complex. These twelve sketches of Haitao are done in one go, without too much design and pretense, and the water is flowing and flowers are blooming, so it is homely. In this way, being casual, natural and Jing Ya must be a flashing track of the aesthetic mind, which is a true reflection of the "ontological freedom" of art. In the face of the fresh wind, it is natural for the viewer to shine at the moment, and it is reasonable to read it in depth, be gentle, and win the prize.
Tracing back to the source, the term "freedom of noumenon" is summed up in China's classical aesthetics with the word "emptiness and quietness", Zhuangzi's "communication with the spirit of heaven and earth alone", Lu Ji's "exquisite skill in swimming in Wan Ren", Liu Xie's "thinking for thousands of years" and Guan Jiu's "Cheng Guan's single-minded prosperity" and so on. For more than 1 years, this theory has not only been regarded as one of the leading spirits of China's art, but also as an "aesthetic personality study", which has cast a unique artist's personality mind in our nation. It is not a outlook on life, but it involves life everywhere; It is not ethics, but it involves personality everywhere. Friends who have been in contact with Haitao believe that they will have the impression of modesty, kindness, sunshine and ability. Haitao is adaptable, kind to others, frank and cheerful, and he has always been in such a state. This is the flow of mind in ordinary life, which is the practical embodiment of simple personality. Haitao once wrote some essays on the edge of the inkstone: "Not seeking perfection, but seeking vitality. Because it is vivid, it is infinite. ""All works are autobiographical and sincere. After many years, if you look at the old ink, you can still vaguely recognize it.