Needless to say, calligraphy works should have artistic beauty and long-term vitality, not only relying on pen and ink skills, but also relying on cultural heritage and personal cultivation, and of course, they must endure loneliness and not follow the crowd and grandstand. In this regard, Wu Shaolan, a heroine in the Guangdong calligraphy circle, has done a good job and can be called a model calligrapher. Naturally, it cannot be denied that over the years, female calligraphers in the Guangdong calligraphy scene have been very active, as many as hundreds of people, including many national calligraphy masters, which have become a beautiful landscape in the Guangdong calligraphy circle, and Ms. Wu is one of the representative figures.
Ms. Wu Shaolan is a native of Shantou, Guangdong, with the pen name Bai Lan, graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (majoring in environment and art design), and is currently a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, a member of the Guangdong Calligraphers Association, the vice chairman of the Jinping District Calligraphy Association of Shantou City, a distinguished academician of the Qingdao Famous Painting and Calligraphy Institute, and a member of the Nanwumen Publishing House. Since she was a child, Ms. Wu has been fond of ancient calligraphy, especially traditional calligraphy classics, and has laid a solid foundation in calligraphy. In her opinion, although learning calligraphy is often boring, black and white are the eternal colors of dreams.
In the long journey of studying calligraphy, Wu Shaolan focused her time and energy on the calligraphy of the stele school, and she was ingenious and spicy. That is, the pen is mostly used to return to the front, which appears round, convergent and modest;The line of the pen is mostly used in the center, and the best edge and the thickest ink are used in the middle of each word, so that the strokes are strong and generous, and the thick and heavy are quite aura;The pen is also just right, which not only gives people a feeling of warmth like jade, but also has the charm of chewing aftertaste. It may also be said that Ms. Wu is trying to express the infinite charm of the art of calligraphy with a very comfortable tone.
There are also comments that from the perspective of Ms. Wu's brushwork, the softness in the calligraphy of the stele school was keenly discovered by her and successfully expressed, so seeking the ancient and imitating the ancient has become the biggest feature of Ms. Wu's calligraphy, and her style of calligraphy is undoubtedly splendid, unique and pleasing to the eye. It is no wonder that some calligraphy association bosses were a little excited after seeing Ms. Wu's calligraphy works, and praised again and again: Although the calligraphy world has always been a world for men to gallop, this female calligrapher is really aggressive!It seems that in order to produce great results in calligraphy creation, it needs to be tempered a lot.
Author: Ye Mang.