One of Zhang Xu's representative works is Zou Ma Lou.
Zou Ma Lou is one of the representative works of Zhang Xu, a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty in China. This work is a cursive calligraphy work in regular script created by him in cursive style. Zou Ma Lou is deeply impressed by its unrestrained brushwork and lively form. The font of this work is strange and wild, like a galloping horse, giving people a sense of broad-mindedness and lofty sentiments. Zhang Xu skillfully used the technique of intermittent linking to create the unique rhythmic beauty and artistic tension of cursive script.
His strokes flow alternately, fluctuating and jumping, forming a powerful and dynamic visual effect. Zou Ma Lou shows Zhang Xu's talent and innovative spirit in cursive writing. This work not only boldly breaks through the tradition in glyph, but also has its own uniqueness in freedom of expression and emotion. It embodies Zhang Xu's personal wild pride and pursuit of artistic freedom, and also shows his profound understanding and skill application of calligraphy.
Zhang Xu introduces
Zhang Xu (232 -3), a famous calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He was born in Wujun (now Suzhou, Jiangsu), which was a period of cultural prosperity in the last years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Together with other famous literati, he contributed to the cultural prosperity of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Zhang Xu is famous for his vigorous cursive style, and is regarded as one of the founders of cursive. His cursive script is characterized by its unrestrained, free and unrestrained, changeable brushwork, smooth curve and full of wild and uninhibited artistic atmosphere.
Zhang Xu's cursive works often use cross-dressing, linking and intermittent brushwork, which makes the glyphs present unique rhythmic beauty and artistic tension. His works are full of free and unrestrained creativity, which shows his interest in calligraphy.
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