Recently, Sun Xiaoyun, chairman of the China Book Association, has been constantly calling for "the origin of calligraphy is culture, calligraphy is not pure art" to correct some prejudices and misunderstandings in society. In view of the current practice of treating calligraphy as an art elective course, the calligraphy major of colleges and universities is opened in the Academy of Fine Arts, the Department of Fine Arts, etc., Sun Xiaoyun believes that it is very unreasonable, she believes that this is a depreciation of calligraphy, a lowering of the image of Chinese culture, which has also caused some calligraphy chaos.
Sun Xiaoyun said publicly, what is the writing handed over to in the school now? The writing is given to the Department of Fine Arts. The art of calligraphy is handed over to the calligraphy major in the middle of the art department in which school, such a setting, I think this is very unreasonable.
Sun Xiaoyun stressed that art is an elective course and will always be an elective. But we Chinese calligraphy, I think should not be an elective course, Chinese character Chinese calligraphy will always be a compulsory course for our Chinese, otherwise, this part of our Chinese culture will be missing.
Sun Xiaoyun is aware of this problem from the height of cultural inheritance. Why, she said, is Chinese calligraphy constantly approaching art? Can it be mixed with Western abstract painting, and can it be the same as just line art and binding art? It is that some people have belittled calligraphy, lowered the image of Chinese culture, and inherited Chinese calligraphy as a text! The art of line and space is a subject of fine arts, and Chinese calligraphy is a matter of culture.
So what are the consequences of making calligraphy an art elective? Sun Xiaoyun said that once this elective course is determined, then the loss of Chinese characters is at hand. The inheritance of Chinese calligraphy I think is not the inheritance of art, but the fundamental inheritance of a culture! I don't know if my point of view is correct, I think that our contemporary Chinese should have this sense of inheritance and this sense of responsibility, that is, when we write calligraphy, we not only inherit Chinese art, but inherit Chinese culture!
For this understanding of Sun Xiaoyun, many people of insight believe that the fundamental value of calligraphy has been spoken. The inheritance, popularization, development and improvement of calligraphy is not only a matter of art itself, but also an important carrier of Chinese culture and plays an important role in the continuation and development of Chinese culture.
Treating calligraphy as line art and space art is actually shouted out by some people who are not confident in Chinese culture! If calligraphy is the art of line, then there are so many words in the world, why did only Chinese characters develop the art of calligraphy?
Sun Xiaoyun believes that once calligraphy, as a line art and space art, leaves the nourishment of traditional Chinese culture, it loses its value and charm to enter the world.
Calligraphy, as one of the essences of the country, is purely a traditional Chinese culture, and those who blindly regard Chinese characters as a medium of "art and innovation" and ignore cultural inheritance are just a passing cloud...
An interesting phenomenon is that most of the authors of "ugly books" are from a group of people who were originally engaged in art, because they are engaged in art, calligraphy is a side business, the foundation of calligraphy is poor, and in order to become famous, they can only develop in a different way. Therefore, Sun Xiaoyun proposed that calligraphy is the foundation of inheriting Chinese culture, and it must not be reduced to an art elective course, and some fundamental issues should be cleared up.
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