There are many folk legends about Xu Wei and Xu Wenchang, and when he encountered a literati who had difficulties, he not only painted well, but also made great achievements in calligraphy, poetry, and opera, but he seemed to be very arrogant and conceited, and it was difficult to tolerate the world, and he often showed a depressed mood in his spirit, committed suicide several times, and then went to prison for killing his wife, and was imprisoned for 7 years.
Xu Wei's tragic personality makes him unique in the artistic creation of the Ming Dynasty, which is completely different from many other painters in the Ming Dynasty who strive to respect tradition and ancients, and his brush and ink are often wild and informal, but the ink is also reflected in its delicate observation and lively expression.
Therefore, in his practical creation, "writing with truth" stems from his theory of psychology of "the middle, the feelings of people". It's really the life force of love. Only when "people's hearts flow out" is true, the work is valuable.
The development of ideology and culture has provided the possibility for the emergence of Xu Wei's artistic spirit of painting that exaggerates individuality and is proud of the world, and also cultivates Xu Wei's unique artistic concept.
In different poems, inscriptions, and even dramas, he made a unique exposition of literature and art, emphasizing the feelings of "nature" and "true color", and demanding independent expression of "true feelings", so he opposed retro. Xu Wei regards painting as a silent poem and a carrier of emotional expression, and he pours out his inner depression, dissatisfaction and various emotions and emotions in his paintings.
"Where the plum blossoms are soaked in water, there is no shadow but there are traces." Although it can avoid snow pressure, I am afraid that it will be swallowed by fish. "The first two verses are poetic and ethereal, full of strange imagination,
The last two sentences of the author's sharp pen turn, sharply pointing out that the noble person is in a dangerous social reality, it is difficult to predict and avoid various persecutions, which is obviously related to his own bumpy life experience and the injustice of the world to him.
Combined with Xu Wei's calligraphy creation, the general characteristics of his representative calligraphy images are indulgent, ups and downs, and unrestrained and strange [17], while its font type, line type, rhythm, and composition have their own characteristics, which are both personality and natureless, in various disguises
It embodies the breakthrough in the shackles of the orthodox "law" of theology and the subversion of the aesthetic paradigm of traditional calligraphy, showing the extraordinary courage and talent and the artistic spirit of escaping the ancient law.
It should be pointed out that his calligraphic creation without adjudication is his struggle and new match with the conceptual schema he has accumulated in his own psychology and the psychological orientation formed from it, and in this sense, it reflects his master's style.