For Liu Hongbiao's calligraphy, there have always been various sayings, some people believe that Liu Hongbiao's calligraphy is the most artistic at the moment, which is very worthy of recognition, because he not only put forward the concept of form and overall sense in the creation of cursive calligraphy, but also made great contributions to the popularization of calligraphy. However, some people feel that although Liu Hongbiao was the vice chairman of the Chinese Calligraphy Association, his calligraphy skills are not enough to be admired and promoted, and his calligraphy is in vain. These two diametrically opposed views persist to this day.
A calligrapher said when talking about Liu Hongbiao's calligraphy, Liu Hongbiao's calligraphy is now controversial, and it seems to be extreme, but it can be summed up as nothing more than his penmanship and glyph problems when writing, and it is precisely because of these two points that many calligraphy lovers feel that Liu Hongbiao can't write and doesn't understand calligraphy, in fact, this view is biased. After all, Liu Hongbiao has been engaged in calligraphy for decades, and he has passed through and seen many works, so it is a bit prejudiced to say that people don't understand calligraphy.
If we really analyze Liu Hongbiao's calligraphy works, it cannot be said that all his works are perfect, but there are some works that are very worthy of learning and reference. For some reason, for some reason, one of Liu Hongbiao's works in Yan Ti Kaishu was exposed to the public eye, which once attracted huge attention and discussion. Although this regular script work is created in Yan style, but because the glyph is far from Yan Zhenqing's regular script, it is also very ugly written, many people say that such a level can still be the vice chairman, which is a stain on Yan calligraphy.
But the calligrapher also said that in fact, at present, people have shifted the direction of calligraphy creation to artistry, so there are many calligraphers in the creation of works, often "do not count the glyphs, only heavy brush and ink" to create works, which brings those calligraphers to the phenomenon of "opportunity", that is: some calligraphers have insufficient regular script skills, but can write regular script in an artistic way, and some calligraphers have insufficient cursive ability, but pick up the brush to draw cursive, This has led to criticism of the calligraphy level of those famous masters by calligraphy lovers.
From the level of Liu Hongbiao's calligraphy, objectively speaking, he has the talent and ability to create calligraphy, whether he is the vice chairman of the calligraphy association, or as a calligraphy judge, he advocates the artistry of calligraphy works, and strongly admires the external form and exhibition hall effect of calligraphy works, in this regard, he has contributed. However, if you want to talk about the ability of calligraphy, Liu Hongbiao seems to still have many deficiencies such as not being fine, not rigorous in penmanship, and unbeautiful in glyphs, for example, there is still a big gap between his regular script, especially the subtlety of the large character regular script and the ancients, and it is not enough to view, and the small Kai works because of the small characters, he still has a realm to speak of with his artistic views and ideas.
Liu Hongbiao has won the Calligraphy Pavilion Award and the title of "Seven Sons of the Orchid Pavilion", the creation of cursive, also has his own guessed insights and creative methods, such as he makes good use of large characters cursive and vermilion small block to create calligraphy works, one black and one red, one large and one small, showing the beauty of calligraphy, which may be a new invention of Liu Hongbiao in contemporary calligraphy creation. And his regular script works obviously expose his calligraphy skills, which many calligraphy lovers do not want to see, therefore, calligraphy lovers will think that his calligraphy level and skills are insufficient.
Do you think the calligrapher's point of view makes sense? Is Liu Hongbiao's calligraphy skills exposed because he wrote regular script? Everyone is welcome to leave a message in the comment area to express their views and discuss together.
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