China's calligraphy started from the calligraphy of the "two kings" and continued to the Tang and Song Dynasties. After arriving in Wang Duo, the architectural space in Ming and Qing Dynasties became larger, and calligraphy became a wall scene. Today, it has become a ground view of a large exhibition hall effect. In the past, the author wrote small letters and grass, and the "two kings" wrote small letters. Today, they are often works of eight or two feet or even longer. Someone wrote a calligraphy as big as a basketball court for visual impact.
One of the influences of modernity on contemporary artistic concepts is that everything is market-oriented, everything is based on the sensational effect of exhibition halls, and media reports and hype are the main ones, which is different from writing alone in the mountains in ancient times. For example, Sun Zhiyong, the seventh monk of Wang Xizhi, has never seen anyone and has never gone downstairs to practice calligraphy for 30 years. In today's view, it's just a person who doesn't understand hype. However, after 30 years of silence, he became famous all over the world. He painstakingly wrote 800,000-word books and distributed them to temples, which set off a wave of copying thousands of words on a large scale, so that those who asked for words stepped on the threshold of temples and had to wrap them in iron sheets, calling them "iron thresholds".
Under the influence of modernity, the mode of communication has undergone fundamental changes, from the old media-paper media to the new media-electronic media, many auction house announcements, film and television videos and so on. This requires that the development of contemporary calligraphy cannot forget the relationship between content and form. Hegel thinks that everything has content and form, but now some people have only form but no content. I can only say that he is a skin and bones, and there is no meat in it; He has only one forehead, and there is no brain in it. Content is the essence of China's calligraphy. First, the content of words includes commendatory words and derogatory words, and the form also includes external forms and internal forms, which is what daniel bell called "meaningful forms". S-type composition is often Chinese. China pays attention to "the end of the song is invisible, and the peak on the river is green", emphasizing Tai Chi and infinite musicality. In the west, the composition is mostly diagonal lines and horizontal lines. With such a different composition, who is better? Neither China nor the West can convince anyone, because China and the West have fundamentally different views on the world.