A top calligraphy master in the Ming Dynasty, his wild grass technique has been perfected, and this word is not even comparable to Wang Xizhi!
In the history of Chinese calligraphy, there is a "herd" and a "heroic view of history", and when you are swayed by this concept, you are likely to lose sight of Mount Tai.
Learning calligraphy also has "first specialize and then Bo" and "first Bo and then specialize" the saying, no matter which kind of statement, there is its truth, it is not absolute, learning calligraphy "specialization" and "Bo" are the process that needs to be experienced, without "specialization", your "Bo" has no meaning, without "Bo", your "Specialization" will be very pale.
Wang Duo's Cursive Book of Four Volumes of Five-Word Verses
We're going to talk about cursive today.
Cursive, a single style of writing, can actually be subdivided, but its brushwork has many commonalities, such as small grass, chapter grass, wild grass, etc., which is also generally considered to be the highest state of calligraphy.
The higher realm of art is often divorced from the embodiment of pragmatism, and its core and external performance are often difficult for ordinary people to understand, which is why many laymen call it "ghost drawing symbols".
Cursive is an independent calligraphy system, each word has its own independent way of writing, this is the basic rules of cursive, many people have not learned cursive, do not know cursive, can not understand cursive is very normal.
In the history of Chinese calligraphy, the number of cursive masters is far less than that of the masters of calligraphy and calligraphy, which is due to the fact that it is difficult to write a good grass and express it with only simple techniques and no temperament.
Han Wei had Zhang Zhi, Tang Chu had "Upside Down Zhang Drunk", and Song Dynasty had Huang Tingjian, these people all single-handedly supported the cursive atmosphere of the entire era, and in the Ming Dynasty, there was only one person who was particularly worthy of big books.
He is Wang Duo.
He was a top calligraphy master in the Ming Dynasty, and Baidu Encyclopedia said that he was a calligraphy all-rounder with all abilities and styles. In his later years, the Wild Grass Technique had been perfected, and in the Wild Grass Field, even Wang Xizhi could not compare with him.
Regarding Wang Duo's calligraphy, there has always been a saying of "divine pen", and his status in the Japanese book world even surpassed That of Wang Xizhi, and he was regarded by the Japanese as a "book saint", and his status was even higher than that of Wang Xizhi, calling it "Hou Wang (Wang Duo), Shengxian Wang (Wang Xizhi)".
Wang Duo was a genius when he was a teenager, extremely gifted in reading, and at the age of 30, he passed the jinshi examination, and was the same year as the great calligraphers Ni Yuanlu and Zodiac Zhou, both of whom were close friends.
In the early years, Wang Duo spent a lot of effort copying the "Holy Order", and the words were forced, Wang Duo was the most diligent in his life for the "Cabinet", and he was one of the few people in the history of calligraphy who could come out of the "Cabinet".
Wang Duo's characters Zhong Xuan, Yan Zhenqing, and Mi Fu's Shen Yun broke through the barriers of his predecessors in the handling of the chapters, and also made bold attempts in ink methods, and were extremely successful.
Wang Duo's success is a product of many aspects, the development of paper, the change of living environment, and the development of calligraphy history to an era when the Ming Dynasty was in urgent need of change, Wang Duo raised the realm of Dacao to a near-three-dimensional height with extraordinary enlightenment and bold innovation.
Wang Duo's cursive masterpiece is his cursive "Four Volumes of Five Words and Laws of Poetry", which is Wang Duo's classic. Whether it is the richness of the brushwork, the axis of the line of qi, or the breakthrough of the ink method, this work is the classic of Wang Duo's life of wild grass.
This work is majestic, vigorous, and elegant, and is a landmark work in the history of Chinese cursive writing.
This work is now in the Wuxi Museum and is the treasure of its town hall.
Today, we have scanned the work in ultra-high definition according to the original work, and restored it to the exact same state as the original work.
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