Liu wants to hold a painting and calligraphy exhibition, which has already been prepared. In the summer, she said that she gave the exhibition a name, so it was called "Meihua Sanxiang". Before the painting and calligraphy exhibition, I was crowned with the title of a guqin song, which was really original and elegant. I solved the problem: "Mei" is herself, and those who "make three moves" make more moves. In fact, most arts are composed of skills and hobbies. If you don't do it for a while, you will get results over time. Recalling that Liu Gang was a little girl in her twenties when she went to Nanjing from Huai 'an, she is now at home, taking care of her husband and daughter and doing housework; There are many friends who write, draw, write poems and sing Peking Opera outside, and they are also the secretary-general of the Provincial Book Association. They are very busy. I think this song "Three Lane of Plum Blossoms" suits her very well. Without the long-term unremitting persistence in "Xiang", how could there be her exhibition today?
Liu has been studying books for more than twenty years. She is a quick beginner. This is because she has studied painting, and her heart, eyes and hands are very accurate. Zhao Mengfu is the one who has studied the most and the longest. During that time, I saw a lot of her temporary works, which were vivid, vivid and enviable. Up to now, friends who know Liu are familiar with her elegant and fluent cursive script, which has also become the keynote of her calligraphy and has been selected for many national exhibitions, Lanting exhibitions and Zhongqing exhibitions. Since then, watching others learn this and that, and getting some new tricks, she also wants to make a makeover and become fashionable. I said to her: Fashion will soon pass. Those who are eager to learn and brag about their abilities write strange and unfounded words. Everyone knows that you can't understand it in person and scold you behind your back! People like Zhao Mengfu will never fall behind. As for personality, it comes out after writing for a long time. In recent years, she has been fascinated by cursive script. At first, she wanted to go wild, but she was not satisfied with her writing. Undaunted, she gradually incorporated Zhao Mengfu's brushwork into it, but gained a serene atmosphere in her agitation and formed her own characteristics, which is worthy of recognition. In fact, many people in history have learned from the past, which is a simple truth. Those who are eager to learn the old, naive, eager to learn the east, ugly and stupid have all failed. The reason is unnatural, and nature is the most basic beauty of calligraphy. Learn what? What style do you pursue? Of course, we should learn from the ancients and pursue individuality, but we must put nature first. This is the true nature. The so-called person who writes a book is like a person.
Yes, Liu's handwriting looks like a person. She is resilient in learning books, just as plum blossoms are not afraid of cold. She has a very literary daughter who once described her mother's diligence like this:
Once when she was cooking in the kitchen, she suddenly raised a spatula and waved it in the air. I was scared to death alive and thought, Are you crazy? I patted her on the back and asked her, "What are you doing?" She calmly replied to me: "I haven't been practicing cursive recently."
Liu wrote it vividly in simple and vivid language. She is calm and calm when things happen, but her heart is always full of beautiful expectations. I think this is also the character of plum blossom. She paints landscapes, flowers and birds. She also studied ancient poetry, Peking Opera and Tan Pai's Old Student, all of which are good examples. A contemporary woman is always pursuing all kinds of arts she wants, living a full, happy and satisfied life every day, but never learning and making progress contentedly, without affectation or showing off. This is noble.
Have you ever heard of "Three Clubs of Plum Blossom"? I think this piano piece must be quaint and imaginative. It may remind people of plum blossoms in ancient paintings. "Spend tens of millions, only two or three flowers are pleasing to the eye." There are many exhibitions today. If there are two or three satisfactory branches in this exhibition, you will be deeply impressed, which is exactly what Liu wants.
Write the true meaning of the heart/Chen Jinchun
In the late 1990s, she began to pay attention to Liu's calligraphy. She often participated in the 8th National Art Exhibition, the 1st Lanting Exhibition, the cursive calligraphy exhibition, the 7th and 8th China Youth Exhibition. Colleagues who are familiar with the evaluation mechanism of the national exhibition know that it is not easy to be selected for the national exhibition once in the competition of crossing the wooden bridge with 10,000 people, but her strength should not be underestimated.
Liu's calligraphy is based on the traditional calligraphy of the two kings. Or taught by Professor Huang Dun of Nanyi; Or from the pure elegance of nature, Liu's running script has always been adhering to a technical rationality of post-learning, which is the ancient rhyme of blood from Xian and his son, Zhi Yong, Zhao Mengfu, Dong Qichang and Wang Juesi, elegant and refined. In particular, her series of calligraphy works have reached a considerable aesthetic level with their elegant and steady writing style, luxurious brushwork and elegant style. In the past ten years, her books have always been immersed in such an elegant and full of rhyme atmosphere. Like her favorite Beijing opera, she is desolate and high-pitched, or low-pitched, singing the classic, elegant, fresh and exquisite "Xipi Running Water".
Liu's grass is another kind of weather. I am surprised that all female calligraphers in Jiangsu like to write big grass, but like Liu, the beauty of the two kings coexists with the exotic Tang grass, but it is rare. In fact, Liu tried to find a balance between the charm of the two kings and the publicity of Tang Cao. Compared with the elegance of the two kings, Liu's grass strengthened the change of the central axis and increased the swing of the word potential. Strengthen the use of seal strokes and brush strokes, and enhance the continuous flow of works; It strengthens the change of the shade and dryness of the ink method and enhances the expressive force of the work. However, due to the influence of gold and iron for many years, Liu Cao always forbeared and hesitated to choose between Xu, Su and gold and iron. This hesitation is also familiar to us in Wang Duo's Middle-aged Grass. A calligrapher who aims at gold and iron for a long time and wants to vent himself in the form of grass is bound to have this kind of detachment. In this regard, the ancients have two answers: one is that drunkenness is unrestrained, wild, continuous, continuous and flamboyant, and the other is that Wang Duo grasped the charm of Jin from the continuous grass, strengthened the internal rhythm of writing and continuous change, and emphasized the elegant restraint of reason, not crazy, from Liu recently.
I have some friends in Huai 'an. Their diligence, wisdom and generosity left a deep impression on me and won my respect. Liu is one of them. She has a well-paid job. However, her obsession with art and innate enthusiasm made him choose calligraphy as his lifelong "career" without hesitation. Liu has many artistic attainments. She won the first place in the college entrance examination in Xu, Huai, Lian, Yan and Yang areas. Her trademark design won the second prize in the National Huaxia Cup Trademark Design Competition, and she made a special trip to the Great Hall of the People to receive the prize. She has a persistent pursuit of music, opera, painting and poetry, and has a good cultivation. When writing this article, I once asked Liu: If you write the Wei and Jin Dynasties in the original way, Liu replied: The difficulty and rich expressive force of cursive brushwork are something that any calligrapher who wants to make a difference in the field of calligraphy must overcome.
Liu is a strict and self-disciplined calligrapher, and her calligraphy creation level is undoubtedly one of the outstanding calligraphers in the contemporary era. What's more commendable is that she can be calm and calm in the noisy and impetuous contemporary era. Elegant and demure, caring for her husband and educating her daughter, writing poems in Linchi, has its own character of Jin people. I suddenly thought of Su Dongpo's poem in "On Wang Yi's Less Posts": "Mrs. Xie's family is light and rich, and it has its own disadvantages. Tianmen swings and jumps, and birds sweep out of the forest. " -read Liu's calligraphy.
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Calligraphy is quiet, and calligraphy is surging.
Calligraphy creation is an art completed by individuals, and she needs personal accumulation. This accumulation requires not only the scriptwriter's long-term traditional skills training, the self-control of ink and wash feeling, the natural creation of composition, but also the final red seal position, which needs to be extremely elegant and accurate. This is by no means picky. It is serious, persistent and in place. Therefore, the process of calligraphy creation is a complete embodiment of a creator's comprehensive level.
Liu's calligraphy is quiet, just like her life, she goes to the pool every day and goes in and out of Wei, Jin, Tang and Song Dynasties. Draw pictures every day, draw some mountains and rivers, flowers and plants, see the "four heavenly kings" in the mountains and rivers, and see the "Wu Yun" in the flowers and plants.
Linchi is her daily class. Every time reading lovers get together, she will take out the IPAD she carries with her, enjoy her latest books and paintings with her peers, humbly ask them to comment, and be as serious and focused as a student. Because of her diligence, books and paintings, there are many works. This often increases the conversation material of the parties, and everyone benefits. As far as I know, her IPAD has been updated.
Jung said: Character determines fate.
This calligrapher from Huai 'an, Guchu, painted well when he was young: "When I was 12 or 13 years old, I drew a lot of funeral flowers of Daiyu, butterflies of precious ladies, and Chang 'e this month. Now I can draw a lady with my eyes closed. "She loves painting and calligraphy for many years. After entering Jinling, he was taught face-to-face by famous teachers such as Huang Yun and Zhang Youxian, and his calligraphy and painting improved greatly. She also learned from two famous teachers the importance of learning books and paintings from ancient classics.
Then, it is only natural that Liu chose Zhao Wu Xinghe, the source of law, and Dong Xiangguang, the Ming Dynasty. Zhao Zhizhen's calligraphy, under the strict statutes of Tang Kai, is handsome, exquisite, symmetrical and elegant. Running script can go deep into the hall of the "two kings" and is not imprisoned by them. Retro style is also good, the small font is exquisite, and the beauty of "neutralization" can be seen in the chic writing. Dong Qichang is talented and gentle, and he is good at combining the pen and ink of painting with calligraphy, so his calligraphy and painting are both gentle and tender, and the monument will be wonderful. Liu's calligraphy that we see today was formed on the basis of extensive study of ancient monuments and famous posts, drawing nutrition from the masterpieces of two sages.
I have to say that calligraphy and painting come down in one continuous line. As an early designer, she has an innate talent for painting and calligraphy, good writing style and extremely sensitive to image and color. There's nothing she can do. She's the strong one here! Many years ago, the first collection of essays by her beloved daughter Bird was published. This book was written by the painter's mother from binding design to illustrations. Let everyone shine as soon as they come out! Very professional. I thought this mother took out what she was best at and most willing to pay, which was her best gift to her children! It is also the best memory of children's youth.
China's paintings and calligraphy are not so much mirror images of pen and ink as branches and extensions of the painter's mind.
Through years of accumulation, Liu expressed his feelings heartily between paper and ink with a soft hair. She was immersed in Wei and Jin Dynasties, studied Song and Yuan Dynasties, and benefited from the Eastern Zhao Dynasty. My devotion, persistence and love for calligraphy are also among the few people I have met. Her investment is conscious and heartfelt, without any utilitarian heart, which is particularly precious in this utilitarian world! She will practice repeatedly for the slight change of light and shade, dryness and rhythm of a line, and even do repeated training like a beginner, with no other purpose, just for that high-quality line! Through a long period of repetition, we can see her present calligraphy: rigorous calligraphy style, standardized techniques, ancient meaning, neutral style and gentle demeanor.
The publication of this style of calligraphy conforms to her kind, tolerant, simple and dedicated personality. So in her calligraphy, the true and pure style naturally overflowed.
Calligraphy is an art that needs both internal and external cultivation. Liu has been constantly replenishing nutrients for himself. In his spare time, he studies China's ancient poems and often writes wonderful words. Learning Beijing opera, the old voice is also quite smug. These seemingly unrelated but actually related literature and art have brought endless confidence to her creation.
Her beloved daughter once wrote a short article about her mother, The Most Familiar Person, in which she wrote: "Her handwriting is very elegant, like Clivia, humble and indifferent to fame and fortune."
With a peaceful and elegant attitude, Liu immersed himself in his own calligraphy world, wrote his own calligraphy and went his own way. With her persistence and persistence in the art of calligraphy, she will surely fly higher and go further.
(Huang, Professor of Culture and Art Education Center of Nanjing University, Master Supervisor)