Zhao Wentao's artistic evaluation

Wang Xiaobo, deputy editor-in-chief of Contemporary Art Network

After reading Mr. Wen Tao's calligraphy, my feelings are as follows:

Get a face and a wicker bone,

Simple style,

Get rid of arrogance and distortion,

Get rid of vulgarity.

Reading Mr. Wen Tao's calligraphy, I don't talk about the grandeur of Buddha, the transition of all beings, but the calligraphy itself. It always brings me experience and inspiration in calligraphy.

In my opinion, this calligraphy work not only keeps the long-term "habit" of traditional calligraphy in writing, but also reveals the Zen intention of the author. It can be clearly read that the routine of China's calligraphy pen, such as clicking, stopping, pressing, turning, returning, lifting and spinning, is abandoned in "writing", which I call a "routine" that suppresses human nature. In particular, the fortune of writing and turning is as quiet as running water and logical. It is not easy to do this. Abandoning "routines" and "aesthetic procedures" naturally, consciously or unconsciously will make this work more beautiful.

This reminds me of a remark made by Jiang Yinfeng, a young genius, "From the perspective of Zen, the process of painting and writing calligraphy is a process of suppressing human nature. Both calligraphy and painting require you to follow some aesthetic laws, modeling laws, or fixed formal laws. This is an act of suppressing the laws of human nature with external laws. " He also said: "I have been learning Chinese characters and drawing since I was a child. Basically, I finished reading the so-called famous posts. After I came to a large number of unearthed silk books of Han bamboo slips, I found that Han bamboo slips are the simplest font design, but I have compared the creation of the whole calligraphy history. (Jiang Yinfeng, The Road to Renaissance in China (XVI) Zen, Unconsciousness and Art).

There is no need to doubt the skill of Mr. Wen Tao's calligraphy works.

To our credit-

In this masterpiece "losing statutes".