At the 11th Calligraphy and Seal Engraving Exhibition. We have seen many wonderful and excellent calligraphy works. What kind of calligraphy world are shown to us in these calligraphy works? Below are the 11th calligraphy and seal cutting works that I have compiled for you. I hope it will be useful to you!
Appreciation of the 11th calligraphy and seal cutting works
Pictures of the 11th calligraphy and seal cutting works 1
The 10th Picture 2 of calligraphy and seal cutting works of the first session
Picture 3 of calligraphy and seal cutting works of the 11th session
11th calligraphy and seal cutting competition Works Picture 4
In calligraphy? Calligraphy is the painting of the heart?
Calligraphy is the art of the soul. If you trace the origin, you can see it on the pottery of Hemudu, on the bronze tripods of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, on the Buddha statues of the Longmen Grottoes, and on the bricks and tiles of the Qin and Han dynasties, and the poetry of the Tang and Song Dynasties.
The longest and greatest influence on calligraphy is Confucianism and Taoism in traditional culture. Confucianism is mainly about benevolence, righteousness, loyalty and forgiveness, and the golden mean. It affirms the beauty of nature, emphasizes the practicality and utilitarianism of beauty, and emphasizes the unity of beauty and goodness. Taoism emphasizes super-utilitarian inaction, advocates "returning to nature", stresses romanticism, and believes that aesthetics should be separated from practicality, and people should not deliberately pursue beauty combined with utilitarianism and satisfy physical pleasure. True beauty should be a spiritual state of conforming to nature, not being bound by the outside world and entering freedom. This kind of artistic aesthetics is deeper than Confucianism, so it will have a greater impact on later generations. To reach this state of Taoism, there are two necessary conditions, one is leisure, and the other is money.
Regarding artists and money, I do not object to calligraphers following the market. Calligraphers should integrate with the market, but calligraphers should keep a distance from the concept that "time is money and efficiency is life." "Cai Gen Tan" puts it well: "Mountains and forests are resorts, and a camp of love will turn into a city and court; calligraphy and painting are elegant affairs, and a greed and obsession will turn into a businessman." For those with an untainted heart, the realm of desire is a fairyland; if the heart is attached to love, the realm of happiness becomes a sea of ??suffering. ?So to become a true calligrapher, you must have rich education, sufficient time, a relaxed state of mind, and a critical eye. Calligraphy is a leisurely profession. The current price of a calligraphy cannot indicate its true value in the future, nor can a calligrapher's position be his true status in history. Why is it said that someone is a writer? He writes for life. He writes whatever others ask him to write, and he writes how others ask him to write. Lu Xun believed in the article "What Happened to Nora After She Left" that only with economic autonomy can we talk about personal independence and freedom of thought. Lu Xun's famous saying in this article is: "Money is the dung that cultivates flowers." Money itself is dung, but it cannot do without it. A flower must grow on it. But dung is never flowers and fruits. Real artists don’t want to be famous or enjoy themselves. All they want is greatness. Art, like truth, can never be exhausted. That is to say, all artists in the world end up staying halfway to art. They are a group of people who are in the eyes of ordinary people. There are people who are mentally deficient. And they have a fire in their hearts, and this fire that inherits civilization often burns itself.
In summary, the different aesthetic concepts of the above two schools of calligraphy are expressed in three aspects, namely: simplicity is beauty, charm is beauty, and neutrality is beauty.
Simplicity is beauty, that is, "great happiness must be easy, great gifts must be simple", "big sounds must be rare, and elephants are invisible". This is the expression form of most traditional Chinese arts. For example, Peking Opera: There is no scenery on the stage; except for a table and a few chairs when necessary, there are not many props and scenery. Therefore, when an actor opens a door, he cannot see the door; when riding in a carriage, he cannot see the car; when leading a horse, he cannot see the horse. There is a real resemblance in the dissimilarity; the falseness is the realism. Who can say that this is not real art! Calligraphy is so simple that it only has black and white, only dots and lines, but it can create emotion, meaning in form, and graceful charm. Zhang Huaiguan of the Tang Dynasty said in his article "On Characters": "In writing, the meaning can be realized by counting several words; in writing, one word can reveal the heart. It can be said to be a simple way." It takes a few words or sentences to express a meaning in words; as for calligraphy, writing a single word can reveal the author's soul, and it truly captures the true meaning of simplicity.
Qi is the beauty. In ancient calligraphy theory, Qi often refers to the situation, style, spirit, and atmosphere. It refers to the active spiritual posture of the work, which is a basic factor in the beauty of calligraphy. Wang Xizhi said in an article dedicated to calligraphy that the power of calligraphy can be charming. Rhyme is different from Qi, and originally refers to a harmonious and pleasant sound. Yun is used in calligraphy, which means that the stipples, characters, and lines of the product are appropriately matched and evenly arranged to form a harmonious, beautiful, powerful, and rhythmic whole. The beauty of calligraphy is the compound of Qi and rhyme. If Qi is what Sun Guoting said in "Shupu": "poor and abnormal at the end of the hair", then rhyme is what he said in the next sentence: "in harmony with the mood on the paper". Qi and rhyme are actually complementary and inseparable. Liu Xizai, a literary critic of the Qing Dynasty, highly praised the beauty of calligraphy. He said in his book "Art and Calligraphy": "High rhyme and deep feeling, strong quality and majesty, neither one of them can make a book". He further discussed the relationship between calligraphy and personal cultivation, to the effect that the charm of calligraphy should be the expression of personal soul. Otherwise, even if the work survives turbidity, it will be nothing more than a reflection of others.
Neutralization is beauty. Neutralization is an ethical and moral norm proposed by Confucianism. In terms of literary and artistic creation, the general meaning of the beauty of neutrality is to be restrained in expressing emotions, and to deal with the relationship between the artist's emotions and objects and situations in a harmonious and appropriate manner. What it pursues is the artistic conception formed by the combination of subject and object in works of art. Neutralization is not dullness. Calligraphy is the expression of one's mood. Chinese health science emphasizes rest. The best mood is tranquility, the best doctor is oneself, and the best medicine is time. Therefore, calligraphy is opposed to "crude, wild, wild, vulgar". That's not beauty, it's an ugly book. The unrestrainedness in calligraphy means willful indulgence, but it can be indulged and controlled; it is seeking adventure and taking risks, but it can turn danger into safety. For example, Wang Duo in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty said that his calligraphy was: lift up your feet, do somersaults, and ride on the clouds and mist into the sky. ?Finally, they were captured one by one, and after struggle and twisting, they were neutralized in a chaotic and rapid movement. Another example is Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy, which people call "rubble paving the streets". There are a mixture of running script, official script, and cursive script in the book, but it is mixed but not chaotic, and the changes are not abrupt. The irregularity is blended in the wonderful taste of harmony. Just like participating in the Olympic Games, the rules of gymnastics are fixed, just like tradition. In this rule, everyone can still make new and thrilling moves according to their personal quality level, but the prescribed moves must be done, which is the difference. Laws, issues, etc.