Regarding the "Pen Array", Lady Wei and Wang Xizhi both wrote it, but Wang Xizhi wrote it called "After the Inscription Pen Array". But it was not Madame Wei who really said the essence of the "Pen Array", but Wang Xizhi.
The "Pen Array" written by Mrs. Wei mainly talks about the strength of pointillism. And Wang Xizhi's "After the Inscription Pen Array" talks about a kind of calligraphic thinking.
This kind of thinking is important, and the level of your calligraphy depends on whether you have it or not.
Mrs. Wei
Let's first feel the difference between The "Pen Array" written by Lady Wei and Wang Xizhi.
Mrs. Wei wrote "Pen Array", and throughout it makes you feel that she has been emphasizing the strength of using the pen, and the strokes should write out the bones and bones. For example, she believes that "those who are multi-bone and micro-flesh are called tendon books, and those who are succulents are called ink pigs."
And Wang Xizhi's "After the Inscription Pen Array", the momentum came - the husband paper array, the author knife also, the ink person armor also, the water brick man city pool also, the heart of the general also, the skilled deputy general also, the structure of the strategy also, the author of the ji fierce also, the in and out of the order also, the bend of the killing also.
Wang Xizhi takes paper as the array, pen as the sword, ink as the armor, water as the city, the heart as the general, the technique as the deputy general, and the structure as the strategy.
This momentum will be a piece of calligraphy, imagining thousands of armies and horses, besieging the battlefield of the city and seizing the wall.
Feel the battlefield where calligraphy is likened to a magnificent battlefield
In fact, this is a very important kind of calligraphic thinking. Thinking determines the height, and this point is far inferior to Wang Xizhi.
This is the essence of "Pen Array", looking at calligraphy as a whole, a cooperative whole. Like a battlefield, each performs its own duties, cooperates with each other, and echoes each other.
How to use this holistic thinking to write calligraphy?
Wang Xizhi takes paper as the array, pen as the sword, ink as the armor, water as the city, the heart as the general, the technique as the deputy general, and the structure as the strategy. This is actually a kind of holistic thinking.
Wang Xizhi considered calligraphy, not only to consider whether the dot painting could write strength, but to consider it from the whole.
Intended to be in front of the pen, with the whole paper as a position, counting white as black... The parts echo each other, and the whole calligraphy work comes alive.
Wang Xizhi
Why some students can't always mention the level of calligraphy is that they lack to write calligraphy with this kind of overall thinking, and only pay attention to the use of techniques.
In Wang Xizhi's overall thinking, the technique is only "a deputy general".
Therefore, writing calligraphy does not need to be considered by overall thinking, and your calligraphy level is not very high.
Conclusion:
Calligraphy emphasizes a harmonious beauty, and harmonious beauty is a holistic beauty.
Your dot paintings are written in a standard way, lacking the echo of dot paintings, and the words are also stiff and have no vitality.
If the writing is done well, it must also be well coordinated with the paper, counting white as black, and being dense and proper, in order to be a good work.
This requires you to think about calligraphy as a whole. If you write calligraphy with holistic thinking, your calligraphy level will reach a certain height.
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Original Author: Inkworm