Calligrapher Feng Cuo said that there are many calligraphers who have not done this thing, so that their calligraphy level progress is very slow, hang up their written works and look at them 10 times, and carefully compare every stroke, every word and the gap between the classic worksDo you need to fix yourself from **?There are very few people who do this, but the calligraphy level of those who do it quickly improves. Feng Cuo also said that learning Xi calligraphy should be benchmarked against the classics, and if you don't compare, the gap will get bigger and bigger, how can you improve the level?
For Feng Cuo's point of view, it has been supported and concerned by many people, some people think that I have always written again, and it feels like it is about it, but I didn't expect him to say this, it is really my own problem. It is also said that if according to his point of view, it is really not easy to learn Xi calligraphy, and after writing the work in the future, it is necessary to carefully compare it with the classics, and also find out your own problems, in order to improve in time. Of course, there are also people who feel that this statement seems to be reasonable, but for calligraphers, it is very important to be self-contained, and there is no need to compare the classic works, I have my own style, if I benchmark with the classics, wouldn't it become a copy of the ancients?
Feng mistakenly believes that most people are relatively vague in scrutiny nowadays, feeling that what they write cannot withstand scrutiny, but they are unwilling to scrutinize themselves, and they will never be able to improve. Actually, I think Feng Cuo's statement is still very reasonable. He requires that when learning Xi calligraphy, it is not only necessary to benchmark with the classics, but also to form some good Xi habits on the Xi, start from the subtleties, learn from the classics, and do things practically, carefully, and practically, that is, not only to use the pen and hands, but also to develop a good habit of learning XiXi, and often find gaps in the classicsTo be meticulous is to carefully compare every stroke and word with the classics to find the gap.
Why did Feng Cuo propose such a method Xi learning?In fact, this may be his method of learning Xi, and it is also his teaching experience. Feng Cuo is a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, the executive deputy secretary general of the Jiangsu Youth Calligraphy Association, and a distinguished artist of the Rongbao Zhai Calligraphy Court. Founder and CEO of Inkpool. Ink pool is a well-known calligraphy art platform in China, with a senior level in calligraphy teaching, marketing, publicity, etc., especially the calligraphy exhibition training class they created, which provides a good platform for most people who are interested in calligraphy. It can be seen that Feng Cuo's view is not groundless, but comes from practical experience.
So, according to Feng Cuo's experience, how to benchmark against ancient classics?In fact, the method is very simple, when everyone learns Xi calligraphy, they have to learn Xi according to the object of the teacher, which is the classic works of ancient times. For example, if a person is learning Xi Wang Xizhi's calligraphy, after we finish writing the work, we must compare it with the original work, from each stroke, every glyph, and the final style, to find our own shortcomings and gaps. But some people may think, isn't this a copy?It is true that this method of learning Xi seems to have the meaning of copying the ancients, but for beginners, this is the fundamental requirement of a foundation, without which the subsequent improvement will be more difficult.
Some calligraphers have put forward some suggestions when they are faced with the difficulty of creating calligraphy, they think that when we copy, we should complete copying as a creation, what does it mean?That is to say, when you have a certain foundation, when you go to copy, you must copy according to the idea of creation, just like when Wang Duo copied the works of his predecessors, it seemed that he was copying, but in fact he was also creating, adding pen and ink elements and his own ideas to the copied works, and finally forming his own creative works, in fact, this statement is more similar to Feng Cuo's view, and to some extent even more than Feng Cuo's concept. What do you think?
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