Xia Xiangping's Artistic Features

The reason why Mr. Xia Xiangping can establish his own artistic image of calligraphy on the basis of rich tradition is that he "learns from many teachers and only studies art". Inspired by Yan Zhenqing's Kaifa and He Ji Shao's Lizi since childhood, he studied various inscriptions in the Han Dynasty. At the same time, he widely absorbed the calligraphy art such as inscriptions on bronze inscriptions, silk scripts, scraps of paper and epitaphs of the Northern Dynasties, and pursued the past and the future, pondering repeatedly, so as to choose one or two for use. In learning the art of calligraphy, Mr. Xia Xiangping advocates inheriting the tradition first and "carefully examining the products of traditional calligraphy and imitating them with high quality", which is particularly precious and similar. At the same time, it emphasizes that the art of calligraphy should pay attention to exploration and innovation and develop with the development of the times. He also advocated reading more ancient inscriptions, fundamentally learning to use pens, knot words and read any posts. At the same time, we can learn from modern calligraphy, broaden our horizons, learn from others' strengths, and resolve a hundred schools in one furnace.

Mr Xia Xiangping's calligraphy is particularly exquisite in official script. His official script creation is based on mastering the traditional official script techniques and his own artistic aesthetics, trying to be flexible and innovative. Faced with hundreds of different styles of Han Dynasty official script inscriptions, Mr. Xia Xiangping adopted the method of judging people by their appearances, instead of sticking to one tablet, he mixed the pen and ink interests of seal script, line script and cursive script, which made official script break through the traditional barriers. Mr. Xia Xiangping's official script has experienced many changes, such as vertical, vertical, uneven and scattered. There is cleverness in clumsiness, familiarity in life, danger in peace and jumping in silence. The brushwork of official script presented to the audience is a unique vigorous, vigorous and simple artistic effect of Gu Zhuo, and has become a calligrapher with distinctive personality in today's book world.

The success of the Summer Palace is to make the appreciators feel the charm of the artistic image of a new official script, which integrates Han bamboo slips and inscriptions, and also has the meaning of brushwork. -Excerpt from Lin Xiu's impression of Mr. Xia Xiangping's calligraphy.

"Learning from the past to change the past" and "learning from the past to change the law" are his experiences in demanding himself and reminding others at the same time. When you read Xia Xiangping's calligraphy, you will strongly feel its artistic uniqueness which is widely read and unique in the works. (Liu Hongbiao).

Li Xia, who is characterized by "cursive rhyme", not only absorbed the strengths of various schools of thought, but also permeated the emotions of cursive script, forming a unique official script style of "people have me, people have no me". -Excerpted from Luo Fei's "Elegant Gas, Everyone's Style"