Text/Zhao Yuchang
The calligraphy created by independent artist Shi Feng stands out in the ever-changing artistic situation. In the new calligraphy of innovation and change, many of them have rushed out of the bottom line of calligraphy, and some of them are still unsightly.
Shi Feng is sober, dedicated and wise, and creates creative calligraphy that is different from traditional calligraphy and other calligraphy. He doesn't use a brush, writes with a blackboard pen, and his strokes don't follow the eight-character method, breaking the original structure, shaping novel characters, writing in black and white, and painting colors ... All his breakthroughs seem to be out of control, but they are well-founded; Combing out the universal artistic principles, with the characteristics of contemporary art.
Shi Feng's creative calligraphy is a contemporary art with blood and roots. It shows the charm of Chinese characters and contains the beauty of calligraphy. It is recognizable and readable, and can distinguish regular script, running script and cursive script. Some strokes are juxtaposed, some are disconnected, and some echo. Modern composition is representation, and the way of calligraphy is soul.
Some contemporary calligraphy is just an empty shell of form, while Shi Feng's creative calligraphy has form and content. Modern aesthetic consciousness and ancient culture complement each other, such as the characters such as "Tian Wen" in regular script and "Tian Dao" in running script, which have a strong modern design atmosphere.
The recent series of works "Dao" is quite similar to Sichuan Opera and installation art, which not only carries cultural information, but also has artistic charm.
Shi Feng said that the so-called creative calligraphy is a modern calligraphy expression method based on the ancient philosophy of word creation and word meaning. Moreover, it breaks through the solidification and control of the original structure of Chinese characters on people's thinking, endows Chinese characters with new deconstructive forms and personalized creative expressions, and challenges and exercises people's aesthetic perception, imagination and thinking.
Zhu Sirui, a critic in yunnan art, interprets Shi Feng's creative calligraphy: the designer's words and the painter's words, paying more attention to the composition consciousness of the whole plane and the painting combination of points, lines and surfaces. For example, Gu Gan, Wei Ligang and Shi Feng regard writing as the image of a book, seek spirituality from the meaning of words and expressions and the aesthetic law of abstract art, endow writing with modern aesthetic consciousness, try to break the traditional precepts, pay more attention to self-interpretation, and re-perceive Chinese characters with strangeness.
This essence is more obvious in ancient Chinese characters, such as Oracle Bone Inscriptions, seal script and inscriptions on bronze. The decline of this trait begins with the practical function of Chinese characters. The emotional expression in Chinese characters is the conscious expression of literary significance, environment and soul, but Chinese characters are still practical. As a functional reading text, the standardization of its writing has been replaced by printing. Today, it is more meaningful to write traditional calligraphy, which is more inheritance and difficult to innovate.
Secondly, artistic interpretation is a very difficult thing, and it is not easy to understand the author's will and intention very accurately. But every viewer should have feelings and experience, so I wrote this essay, which attracted a beam of sunshine and shed a drop of morning dew, wishing creative calligraphy greener leaves, redder flowers, mellow and beautiful everywhere.
It is true that for Shi Feng, an artistic generalist with comprehensive artistic accomplishment, I think his road to artistic sublimation has just begun. At this point, through his continuous work update, there will be new explorations and breakthroughs, and I am looking forward to it.
? By Zhao Yuchang on 2021/610
Personal profile: Shi Feng, independent artist, freelance writer and senior designer. International online cultural interviewer, cover figure of Time People, winner of New Silk Road Cultural Promotion Award, and practitioner of Chinese outstanding cultural rejuvenation.
/kloc-0 was born in Shaanxi in 1967 and now lives in xi' an; I studied painting since I was a child, and my works were published in magazines and newspapers when I was young. Has been engaged in multimedia and Internet-related design work, widely involved in art cross-border and art categories. Now engaged in contemporary artistic creation and theoretical research.
Adhering to the artistic style and painting concept of combining magical deconstruction with geometricism, we reveal the essence of human nature in an artistic way and angle, dispel the appearance of things, deconstruct real life, and be an art with soul and belief.
About the author: Zhao Yuchang, a retired senior high school teacher, is over eighty years old and a freelance writer. He was once rated as a national excellent art teacher and a national excellent teacher. He has written many works reviews for young artists from all over the world.
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