Traditional Chinese calligraphy has a long history and profound heritage, from oracle bones, small seals, lishu to today's square modern Chinese characters, Chinese calligraphy has gone through a long historical process, the birth of many excellent calligraphy works and great calligraphers, such as the Eastern Jin Dynasty Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion Collection", the Southern Song Dynasty Zhao Mengfu's "Songxuezhai Anthology", these works of art still have high aesthetic value to this day.
When it comes to art, ordinary people always say that they can't understand this, the elusive paintings in the gallery can be auctioned for a sky-high price, the strange and strange clothing on the catwalk is the haute couture of well-known brands, "there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people", whether it is real art or a farce, everyone's measurement will be different. Mr. Shao Yan, a famous calligrapher in the mainland, once made a "shooting book" in the exhibition, is this a unique artistic taste or a "pseudo-master creation" for a gimmick?
Strange "Shooting Book"
Shao Yan, born in 1962, Shandong Wenden people, graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts Calligraphy Research Office, his representative work is "Three Musketeers Modern Calligraphy Collection", his works have been collected by the United States "Time Magazine", Today Art Museum and many other well-known international art institutions, he has participated in many art exhibitions, in the art of calligraphy has achieved remarkable achievements, many of which have been auctioned at high prices, but what really makes him enter the public eye is the "shooting book" founded by him.
There are many kinds of calligraphy fonts, seal calligraphy, Lishu, 楷書, Xingkai, etc. are all well-known fonts, but Shao Yan is famous because of his self-created "shooting book", you may have questions, what is "shooting book"? In short, it is to spray ink with a needle and write words.
This writing technique comes from a video of him, in which he takes a needle to absorb ink, and then sprays it on rice paper, and a string of words that people can't understand at all appears, and the black ink on rice paper is long and short, thick and thin, but no matter how you look at it, it can't be called a word.
As soon as the video came out, it caused a lot of controversy on the Internet, and some people thought that he was rubbing the heat under the guise of art, relying on writing these strange calligraphy styles to get hot spots and attract everyone's attention, so as to make his works sell at a higher price, enhance popularity, and achieve the purpose of obtaining benefits through personal speculation.
But there are also people who think that writing with a needle tube is not to play with the public, there are many kinds of tools for the use of calligraphy, writing with a brush is called soft calligraphy, writing with a pen is called hard calligraphy, and even we can sometimes see the old man in the park writing on the tile with a mop on the news, and many people praise his words into the wood, strong and powerful. So why can't writing with a needle tube be called a new type of calligraphy? Why not treat it as an innovation?
In this regard, Shao Yang himself has such a response, from his point of view, he believes that the people can not understand what he thinks of as a tool for writing art, but only a medium to convey attitudes, for the philosophy of artistic life, he has his own attitude, he hopes to express his true emotions through works of art.
As for the idea of writing with a syringe, it was because of his one sick experience, Shao Yan himself was nearly 60 years old this year, so his body also had many conditions.
In the process of hospital treatment, his heart received a stent implant, because the degree of damage was more serious, he implanted a total of eight stents before and after, since then, he began to realize the preciousness of life, but also let him have his own special feelings for the needle, in his point of view, the needle is more like a link between life and life, Therefore, he hopes to be able to use things with special significance in his body as a tool for his calligraphy creation, so as to make his works more realistic.
But we say that art comes from life and serves the masses. From ancient times to the present, many innovative ideas of innovative art have not been recognized and long-term inheritance by the public, and it cannot be criticized that this kind of art has no value of its own existence, but it has not been truly appropriate and serves the public.
In the long river of history, this kind of art often can not pass the test of time, and thus be judged to be a work that is not on the table, just as only Zhong Zi period in the world can understand Yu Boya's works, the two people are the confidants of the mountain flowing water, any kind of art has its own aesthetic value, but if you want to let the public accept, then you must make changes.
Shao Yan's shooting books are not loved by everyone, and he is personally judged to be entertaining the public, and the popularity of the moment is only because everyone likes to watch the liveliness and it is difficult to go long. He himself seemed to be aware of the problem. Shooting books is entirely a personal hobby, rarely displayed in public, and in the face of doubts, he posted a calligraphy work written by himself on the Internet platform.
He wrote in the caption that I didn't care about everyone's opinions, writing Zhang Zhengkai, just wanted to tell everyone that I would write I can write, but I insist on my artistic attitude. In this regard, netizens commented: Deceived, deceived. Such comments can not help but feel a little ironic, netizens seem to be dissatisfied with his previous behavior, and do not buy the work he used to prove himself.
After the book shooting incident, Shao Yan rarely posted some of his calligraphy works on public platforms.
The storm of this matter has gradually passed, and the public has forgotten the former shooting book and Shao Yan, but it is worth making us start to think about what is real art? What is a true artist?
In the network media is very developed, today we can see a lot of works on social media. Some works are as long as several hours, and some only take a few seconds, these works, according to the public aesthetic vision, some are vulgar and some are elegant, but without exception they all have a high degree of heat.
Taking the film market as an example, although China's film market has developed well in recent years, and the box office has been constantly refreshing the height every year, there are very few works that can really be talked about.
There are many high box office movies are derived from people's pursuit of a certain actor or a certain kind of feelings, but after consumption, often unsatisfactory, some creators only see the height of the surface number, but ignore the true meaning of artistic creation behind it, art comes from the masses and serves the masses, works that cannot be close to the lives of the masses, or works that degrade the working people, and can only be eliminated by society and history in the end.
We live in a society with a strong spirit of entertainment, and many things in life have begun to be industrialized by entertainment, but we must always know one thing, we can be entertained, but we must not entertain to death.
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