Calligraphy is a line art, "Calligraphy is colorless with brilliant pictures and silent with musical melodies". In the style of calligraphy, cursive script can best reflect this feature of calligraphy line art, so the focus of debate on the innovation and development of calligraphy is cursive script, so it is an important aspect of the innovation and development of calligraphy art to clarify its characteristics and profound realm.
First, the characteristics of cursive script
Compared with other calligraphy styles, cursive script has the following artistic features:
1, looks very smart. Cursive script is not a portrait, but often pursues similarity, which can better reflect the cultural artistic conception and charm inherited by the Chinese nation for thousands of years. Great writers in the Song Dynasty also had similar views on this, so most of the cursive characters are similar in spirit and rhyme, and they are sketched slightly, such as the cursive script of "melon, stop and ear". (see the picture below)
2. simplify. A similar result is simplification. Compared with regular script and official script, the simplification of most elements in cursive script is an indisputable fact. For example, the cursive writing of "Wen, Chu and Ben" obviously reduces many strokes compared with the writing of regular script. (see the picture below)
3. follow the trend. Many cursive characters are often the result of the author's arbitrary actions, such as the cursive writing of "divination, divination and potential" (see the figure below), which shows the obvious state and characteristics of stroke by stroke and taking advantage of the trend. Therefore, for many cursive characters, if you don't understand why the ancients and masters wrote like this, in most cases, you should think along this line and solve it.
4. Lian Bi. Most of the characters in cursive script are often Lian Bi's strokes with little pause (as for the conversion of brushwork, such as lifting and pressing, etc.). , is another problem) and fracture, have a certain meaning, a certain connection, a certain real connection, such as the cursive writing of the words "no, yes, Cui". (see the picture below)
In fact, the above aspects are closely linked and closely related. Only simplification can achieve the trend and Lian Bi, so as to achieve the result of similarity in form and spirit, and finally present the result of harmony in spirit, so as to have the agility and artistic life of lines.