"Your calligraphy can be ugly, but not vulgar!As soon as this theory comes out, probably many friends will refute it!Listed as an official, don't worry!The above points of view have their own place!
You might as well invite Fu Shan, a man in the Qing Dynasty who is familiar with scriptures and history and Buddhism, and who is good at medicine and calligraphy and painting, to speak for the author!
For calligraphy, Fu Shan put forward a famous point of view, which can be summed up in four words, that is, "four Ning and four no", the specific content is: rather ugly than flattering, rather clumsy than clever, rather fragmented than slippery, rather straightforward than arranged.
Fu Shan's calligraphy view of "Four Nings and Four Wus" seems to be a bit deviant, and many people at that time did not understand it, thinking that Fu Shan was the originator of "ugly calligraphy"!
Fu Shan's theory of "Four Nings and Four Nones" is not a fabrication, but the result of long-term calligraphy practice. Fu Shan's practice of theory is not limited to calligraphy, but also manifested in the fields of art and Buddhism, demonstrating the correctness of "practice is the only criterion for testing truth".
Fu Shan was a pivotal figure in the Qing Dynasty calligraphy and even in other fields. He is a rare all-rounder in the history of Chinese culture. He is not only a genius calligrapher and painter, but also a famous Taoist scholar, a famous doctor, and even a martial arts master.
Fu Shan's style of acting and ideological propositions are in the same line, in essence, the temperament of a Taoist figure, learning from the truth for man, free and easy, and opposing authority and dogmatism.
Fu Shan's theory of "four Nings and four nos" is a rational understanding of "ugliness" and "beauty". Ugliness and beauty are not isolated and absolute, they can be transformed into each other. Ugliness to the extreme is beauty, and beauty to the extreme is ugliness.
Fu Shan criticized Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy, believing that Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy was "kitsch" and too delicate, and in the final analysis, it was "cheesy" and had a distance from the ancients.
Fu Shan believes that the vulgar is not the "vulgar" of "elegant and vulgar", the "vulgar" here is something that is easy to understand and easy for the public to accept, and the vulgarity of calligraphy is inferior and vulgar, which is the so-called "vulgar and unbearable"!
Back to the previous point: your calligraphy can be "ugly", but not "vulgar", that is, let your calligraphy get rid of the vulgarity and present the ancient and elegant realm of calligraphy.
For the understanding of "ugly", many people will immediately associate the writing behavior of calligraphers such as Zeng Xiang, Wang Dongling, Shao Yan, and Wo Xinghua, and subconsciously have the impression of "dirty", "messy" and "poor".
In fact, the calligraphy of the above four calligraphers is not completely ugly, in fact, there is no lack of beauty, but you haven't discovered it yet!Beauty and ugliness are dialectical unity, which needs to be supported by relevant theoretical evidence, rather than drawing conclusions based on personal preferences.
The public generally believes that Tian Yingzhang's calligraphy is very beautiful, because it is clean, exquisite, beautiful as spring and snow, and also like the skin of a beautiful woman, it can be said that Tian Yingzhang's calligraphy is beautiful to the extreme!
But there is a contrary view that also holds!Tian Yingzhang's calligraphy is both beautiful to the extreme, but also "ugly to the extreme", which has derailed from the real art of calligraphy.
For example, a delicate, clean, and beautiful photo of a beautiful woman is not considered elegant art!A wrinkled, ugly portrait of an old woman is a real work of art, and Picasso has many of them.
The pursuit of "beauty to the extreme" is often too carved, in order to pay attention to every detail, and ignore the "frankness" and "true temperament" of artistic creation, which is to deceive the external feeling of vision, and lack the inner meaning.
Therefore, Tian Yingzhang's calligraphy is "good-looking" at first glance, and anyone's first impression is like this, while long-term observation is "unbearable", after all, it lacks the charm of art, and is only limited to practicality.
For calligraphy, Fu Shan is proficient in regular and cursive methods. For regular script, his specialty is small Kai. His Xiaokai, you not only see the delicate side, but also the clumsy side.
Fu Shan's grass, at first glance, is indeed a little ugly, but in-depth observation, but intriguing, this is what he advocates "rather clumsy than flattering" and "rather clumsy than clever", is the expression of his true temperament!
Calligraphy can be ugly, but not vulgar, do you agree with this point of view?