[Reading] Nine Lectures on Calligraphy-Fang Jianxun

I came across this book while visiting the bookstore. At that time, I saw part of it and thought it was wonderful, but the price was relatively high and I was reluctant to buy it at that time. I took my children to Jiangning Library two weekends ago and found this book in the library by accident. I borrowed it in surprise and read it carefully. Some paragraphs in the book are very exciting, and the excerpts are as follows.

Purpose of temporary release

? Calligraphy learning, you must take the method. When we approach ancient times, we should not only learn to draw horizontally and vertically, but also learn the essence of modeling-how to embody the interest of pen and ink, the coexistence of reality and reality, artistic conception and so on.

The process of posting is itself a process of physical and mental pleasure.

Facing ancient times is both a hand and a heart. It is a dialogue with the ancients and a way to understand the soul of Mo Lian calligraphy with one's own heart. When a person's heart and hands are integrated with the ancients, his mind will be suddenly enlightened. To learn the calligraphy of the sages, we should not only work hard on stippling and techniques, but also have a sense of the life world and the universe behind stippling.

Wandering in art is the ideal realm of perfect life, and it is the calmness and freedom of spirit. China's culture and art pursue the realm of harmony between man and nature. The realm of calligraphy, the pursuit of Taoism and nature, the pursuit of natural interest and the pursuit of nature first, the process of posting is the process of gradually understanding this realm. Therefore, the process of posting is a process of gradually opening up the life rhythm of one's own ego and corresponding to the life rhythm of the universe. To learn calligraphy, we should not only understand the techniques of calligraphy, but also understand what the purpose of the techniques is and the ultimate goal of calligraphy-the unity of heaven and man.

The likeness and shape of the post

Grasp the big ones first, and then gradually improve the details.

Keep your eyes in front of your hands, which means that your hands are not skilled at first, but you can't lose the big feeling of the model, which is also the understanding and imitation of the model "God". Through persistent study, the distance between heart and hand is gradually shortened.

It is action.

The post is not drawn, but written. Writing is a process of stroke movement, which has many subtle and rich changes, such as pushing, pressing, ordering, and so on.

Reading posts is an attempt to restore the author's writing process and brushwork at that time. The process of reading posts is the process of trying to figure out. In addition to careful observation with the eyes, you need to imagine.

There has been a definite change in brushwork-like drawing sand with a cone.

The aesthetic requirement of stippling is roundness and strength, and the core point of using a pen is to draw conical sand.

First, the pen always stands on the paper. If you want to press it, you can lift it, and the elevator is in the same place.

Second, steel is strong. In the process of writing, I feel that the nib moves on the paper like a cone trying to penetrate the paper.

Third, calm, with astringency in the disease. We can neither stand still nor slip away. This kind of pen tip walks on paper, which is very smooth and has a sense of friction (obstruction), that is, the disease is astringent.

Similarities and differences between tablet method and post method

First, pen and paper.

If you use hard hair such as wolf hair, the beauty of calligraphy in the tablet will not come out.

Second, the brushwork

1 pen speed

Comparatively speaking, epigraphy tends to be more astringent, while plaster science tends to be more ill.

2 stroke change

Insist on learning to use the pen all the time, and pursue using the front on all sides. The aesthetics of stele science is all about quality and reality, not the cleverness and emptiness before.

3 deficiency and excess

Writing, advocating virtual spirit, calm and elegant; The pen used in stele study advocates coarseness, solidity and fluency.

Basic principles of calligraphy structure

All the words in a calligraphy work must form a whole, and the strokes of each word in this work must also form a whole. The former is called composition and the latter is called inter-frame structure.

As far as a single character is concerned, the core point that forms the whole stroke is the octagonal arch center. All strokes of a word point to the center of gravity of the word and aggregate into a whole, that is, the arch center.

Calligraphy pays attention to strokes, and the meaning of strokes includes four levels: sense of movement, strength, speed and direction. If a word wants to be in the arch, it is necessary to make the strokes strong. Not only is it powerful, but the trend or potential direction of all strokes needs to converge to one point.

Good calligraphy has a sense of leap, so China's calligraphy is suitable for writing column by column vertically.

Composition of calligraphy

Generally speaking, it can be divided into two types: one is neat and the other is uneven. A well-placed composition usually has vertical lines and horizontal columns, up and down, left and right, and each word is about the same size.

How to read posts

First, grasp the big feeling? Good-looking, first grasp the artistic sense of the model.

Secondly, the micro-form grasps the general direction, and then looks at composition, font structure, stippling and so on, all of which belong to the formal level.

1 is to learn calligraphy temporarily with a pen, which is an action.

Forward or backward: Is the stroke of starting and putting pen to paper forward or backward?

Direction: the direction in which the pen tip travels.

Lifting pressure: the lifting pressure change of the pen tip

Speed: the change of pen speed.

Rotation and compactness

2 structural aspects

The overall feeling and characteristics of reading structure

Read the word potential and heart of a word.

Observe the blank? We should not only observe the blanks between lines, between upper and lower words, but also read the blanks of individual words.

The third chapter, Mohism.

Third, read relevant materials outside the template.

1 other people's comments

2. Other works of the model author

The author's life and his times

The aesthetic ideal of calligraphy is natural interest, while Dongpo talks about innocence and romance. However, naive romance can not be obtained simply by working hard and blindly strengthening the skills in writing. In addition to techniques, it is more important to experience the stretch and freedom of "the beauty of heaven and earth is self-evident" with your own mind.

Temporary release field

One is from ancient times to the present.