The above video shows Tang Guoqiang's calligraphy at the United Nations Headquarters. Unlike the flashing shutter and clapping in the video, online comments are almost always critical. Let's see:
Is the netizen not understanding? Or are the people at the scene playing dumb? Perhaps it is difficult for Gao Daquan to enter the vulgar eyes of netizens!
Sometimes I think about it, I really want to thank the Internet age. Everyone puts on a mask and becomes a "keyboard man", so that we can stimulate words without pretending to be snakes.
For example, in that era when there was only television, calligraphers who had been praised on the altar all "fell down" one by one. Therefore, in the face of calligraphy that we don't understand, we become no longer blindly worshipping, but more open-minded to precipitate, because everyone is afraid of being laughed at.
Writing calligraphy by celebrities is a matter of running around with a halo, which is also the most contradictory and difficult place to solve in the calligraphy market in recent years. This phenomenon has not decreased, but more and more celebrities have joined the ranks of the art market. Tang Guoqiang and Zhang Tie-Lin are such "artists".
They are also rated as artists, because they often appear in calligraphy exhibitions to hold some inscriptions, but book lovers are not used to them doing so. Recently, Tang Guoqiang's calligraphy has been sprayed to amateur level. Book Club: Tang Guoqiang's calligraphy is elegant and the font structure is disordered, which is not a work of art. Let's discuss the state of his calligraphy.
In the past, Tang Guoqiang's calligraphy foundation was still trustworthy. Why is it sprayed to amateur level now? The main reason is that there are problems in the self-improvement of his calligraphy art, which is also the fundamental reason for the increasing number of ugly masters.
Simply put, the foundation and articles of association of traditional calligraphy are no longer suitable for their development. More importantly, they took a so-called "calligraphy innovation" road. According to my own understanding of calligraphy, it is common to play traditional calligraphy with disordered brushwork structure. Over time, let alone works of art, works can only be called artistic words at best, and sometimes they can't reach them.
A closer look at Tang Guoqiang's works is actually very close to Zhang Tie-Lin's. Personal calligraphy is too strong, full of Jianghu greasy flavor, and it will be like that if you get used to it. Their works lack the aesthetic feeling like Qigong and Ertian calligraphy. On the one hand, the cursive script is not practiced well, on the other hand, the artistry cannot be appreciated by everyone.
Strictly speaking, their calligraphy has become too market-oriented Some netizens claimed that the calligraphy of Tang Guoqiang and Zhang Tie-Lin paid attention to elegance, and there were no traditional rules and regulations, so the structural confusion was understandable. But from an artistic point of view, it can't bring pleasure to book lovers. What is the significance of elegant calligraphy without the artistry of works?
Calligraphy can't be played as a market art, and it can't benefit calligraphy and painting because of personal fame. It is precisely because of these two points that there are so many ugly book masters at present. No matter how artistic the work is, it is futile to play calligraphy without writing well.