Some people say that good calligraphy has the brilliance of painting and the harmony of music. Therefore, calligraphy is also known as "silent music" and "solidified music".
Reading Zhang Guoying's calligraphy, there is such a feeling!
Zhang Guoying has a variety of books, and he is especially good at grass. His calligraphy is like a dragon, carrying nine dings, exquisite and wonderful. Appreciate Zhang Guoying's works, just like a spiritual enjoyment, at the same time of aesthetics will also feel extraordinarily pleasant and shocking, and that feeling, will make you think of it, just like enjoying a very good concert, the beautiful song always echoes in the ear, Zhang Guoying's visual impact and strong aesthetic empathy strokes seem to be in front of your eyes Dragon Flying Phoenix Dance, so that you resonate, make you feel unfinished!
Works by Zhang Guoying
Zhang Guoying was born in a family of calligraphy, and his father Zhang Lichao was called "the pioneer and founder of the calligraphy industry in Shandong Province" by Zhang Yefa, the former chairman of the Shandong Provincial Book Association. "In the field of calligraphy and painting in Shandong, in the early years, it was called about, hei, yi, yue, jin, and Zhang, and Zhang, among which Zhang was Zhang Lichao. At that time, Zhang Lichao was very influential in Shandong and even the whole country, and his disciples were all over the place. Under the influence of his father, Zhang Guoying began to study books at the age of seven, starting with Tang Kai's "Xuan Secret Ride" and "Magu Xiantan Record", and then posting the qin, Han, Wei and Jin inscriptions, during which time, he repeatedly polished the "Sacred Order" and "Sacrifice Nephew Manuscripts", and especially liked the calligraphy classics of Zhang Xu, Huai Su, and Huang Tingjian.
Years of artistic tempering have formed Zhang Guoying's calligraphy style of delicate, thick, free and rich in connotation. In fact, contact with Zhang Guoying will also have this experience. Zhang Guoying, like his calligraphy, is the best combination of rationality and sensibility. In Zhang Guoying's body, there are too many imprints of Qilu culture, he is intelligent and diligent, bold and loyal. Talking to Zhang Guoying, you will feel that time passes quickly, full of knowledge, jinan people's hospitable personality makes you feel deeply sorry for each other.
Zhang Guoying is versatile, knowledgeable and knowledgeable. He is familiar with ancient and modern Chinese and foreign masterpieces, and has a deep understanding of Tang poetry, Song Ci, Yang Lian, drama, and music. For music, Zhang Guoying is particularly fond of erhu and accordion. His multifaceted artistic accomplishment has greatly promoted the improvement of Zhang Guoying's calligraphy creation, especially the inspiration of music for his calligraphy achievements.
Musicians rely on the melody of music, calligraphers rely on the rhythm of lines. Like musicians, calligraphers incorporate their feelings into their creations. In the face of the dot paintings to be combined, Zhang Guoying will express his aesthetics, life experience, thoughts and feelings, and the accumulation of knowledge, and the free-flowing brush is like a beautiful piece of music, and the ink that is sprinkled between the lines is like the melody and beat of the music.
Whenever he composes, Zhang Guoying will be immersed in this "music", and because of this, his calligraphy is full of emotions. This is particularly evident in his cursive works, especially when writing poetry, his strokes are all related to the content and rhythm of the poems, the connection and weight of the strokes, the height and height of the characters, the opening and closing, the speed and slowness of the strokes, the press, and the concessions and echoes of the structure are all reasonably applied to the words. Here, the content and form have reached a high degree of harmony and unity, and the charm of the work is vibrant.
In fact, in zhang Guoying's eyes, calligraphy is not only simple writing, it has been sublimated. As Zhang Guoying said: "The art of calligraphy is the art of contradictions, the combination of contradictions." The big and small characters, the sparse and dense, the light and heavy of the pen, the disease and the xu, the moist and the dry, are all a pair of contradictions. For example, the neutral beauty and dangerous beauty in the aesthetics of calligraphy are also a pair of contradictions, and the diversity of contradictions has made the works readable. And Zhang Guoying is the constructor of contradictions and the solver.
Zhang Guoying believes that calligraphy is a feeling, in the face of a calligraphy work to feel physical and mental pleasure, this work must be a good work, a good work will make people feel endlessly evocative, make people associate. From the perspective of glyph structure, there are also rules, a word is a person, the word is anthropomorphized, centered on moderation, visually balanced, the word is good-looking. Calligraphy is related to music, fine arts, drama, music, dance and other art forms, although the forms of expression are different, but the extensive cultivation will certainly inspire the improvement of calligraphy creation.
Logan said that the melody heard by the ear is beautiful, but the melody that cannot be heard is even more beautiful.
Seeing this sentence, I thought of Zhang Guoying's calligraphy. The melody immersed in the lines of words; the rhythm hidden in the intermittent strokes; the feelings dissolved in the intertwined black and white, thick and light brush and ink, make you linger, make you forget yourself, make you feel relaxed.
Zhang Guoying Profile:
Zhang Guoying was born in Jinan in 1952. He is a member of the China Calligraphers Association, a standing director of the China Yuelian Society, an executive vice chairman of the Shandong Yuelian Artists Association, a director of the Shandong Calligraphers Association, a vice chairman of the Jinan Calligraphers Association, and the chairman of the Jinan Yuelian Artists Association. He once served as vice chairman and secretary general of the Jinan Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and deputy director of the Social Culture, Education and Legal Affairs Committee of the Jinan Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. At the age of seven, he began to learn calligraphy under the guidance of his father, Mr. Zhang Lichao, starting with Tang Kai, and then chasing the qin, Han, Wei, and Jin tablets, learning from the past and the present, taking the long and the short, and gradually forming his own style. Since 1973, he has participated in various major calligraphy exhibitions and competitions at home and abroad, and has won more than 30 awards by the end of 1989. In 1993, at the invitation of the Taiwan Calligraphy and Painting Education Society, the "Zhang Guoying Calligraphy Exhibition" was held in Taipei, Hualien, Changhua and other places, and cultural exchange activities such as calligraphy art lectures were held in several colleges and universities, which were well received by people from all walks of life in Taiwan. The Liaoning Fine Arts Publishing House publishes "The Collection of Chinese Calligrapher Zhang Guoying", the Shandong Fine Arts Publishing House publishes the "Collection of Zhang Guoying's Calligraphy Works", and the Chinese Poetry And Poetry Publishing House publishes "Zhang Guoying Cursive Quancheng Fu". His works have been given to foreign sister cities and international friends as government gifts for many times, and his biography has received nearly 100 dictionaries, and some inscriptions and works have been selected by scenic spots into the forest of carved stone steles, and have been collected by dozens of museums and memorials at home and abroad.