Chen Yangjing is a doctoral student of Lü Jinguang and Hu Kangmei, born in 1984, and is currently a member of the China Book Association and the president of the Book Court of the Hebei Academy of Fine Arts. In many national calligraphy competitions, Chen Yangjing has won the nomination award of the 11th National Calligraphy Exhibition and the highest prize (first prize) of the 3rd National Cursive Calligraphy Exhibition with his works of Calligraphy and Jian Mu, and as a doctoral student, he has published many calligraphy papers and monographs in professional newspapers and magazines for many times.
Chen Yangjing's calligraphy works, unusually, are not strictly simple and lishu works, but adopt a multi-body and mixed method, making his calligraphy works full of meaning. However, for this kind of cursive or calligraphy works, many calligraphy enthusiasts are not optimistic about this, and some people believe that this is not in place, and they are anxious to express traditional calligraphy in this way. Some people also think that the level of a doctorate is not in writing, but in composition, writing such a calligraphy work, or don't write, do a good job.
Why can't people understand his calligraphy? Is it just ugly to write? For example, he copied the classic Eastern Han Dynasty book "Good King" when copying, it has lost its original taste, people "Good King" was originally a cursive script, but on closer inspection, it is flowing and vertical, and the doctor's copying work, to go to an anomaly, that is, no pen and ink, no glyph, is an ugly book in the complete sense, is the ugliness of the calligraphy of "Good King".
Let's analyze what Chen Yangjing did in his calligraphy works?
First, with Jian Mu as the main body, the "simple meaning" of calligraphy works still exists. Jian Mu is an ancient script, the Western Han Dynasty before the writing on bamboo and wooden strips of ink script, it is much earlier than the Eastern Han Lishu, so its shape is natural, the text form is lively, unearthed a lot of Jian Mu script, such as "Mawangdui Jane", "Gangu Jane" and so on. Huang Binhong said: "As far as the words are concerned, the appearance of the great seal is uneven, but there is a spirit in the bones, and the qi is in the bones." Since Qin Shi Huang, he has become a small seal, and his appearance has been aligned, but he has lost the spirit in his bones. The Western Han Dynasty's no wave is also uneven in appearance, but there is an inner beauty. After Wang Mang, the Eastern Han Dynasty changed it to Youboli, and said that the appearance was neat. ”
It can be seen from here that calligraphers pursue calligraphy with its meaning and "spirit in the bones". Dr. Chen Yangjing's approach is to understand calligraphy and pursue calligraphy from a more ancient perspective, so his calligraphy has a more ancient meaning. Coupled with his knowledge of calligraphy, his works appear simple and old, which makes people feel unfinished after watching.
Second, the beauty of calligraphy is expressed in the method of natural writing. Dr. Chen Yangjing's calligraphy works use the concept of modern calligraphy artistry to express the beauty of calligraphy. First of all, in the ink method, it has achieved "cherishing ink like gold", using ink color to express the sense of layering and picture of calligraphy and various contradictions in calligraphy, so as to achieve the artistic effect of weight, thickness and dryness.
Third, pay attention to the sense of form and space. Many contemporary calligraphers express artistry with a sense of form and space in calligraphy, which refers to the overall form of the work, including the speed of writing and the whiteness of space to win the sense of picture. In many small print works, in addition to ink, more is to reproduce the form of space, so that the sense of time and space of calligraphy works can be revealed. The large-character works are more exaggerated, such as a couplet in the illustration, although there are only six words, but the upper link leaves almost a word space in the writing, which makes people reverie.
Although Dr. Chen Yangjing's calligraphy works show a lot of calligraphy elements and reflect the artistry of calligraphy very well, there are also many regrets. For example, when he copied the work of "The Good King", although he adopted the method of Yilin, many of the brushwork may be to express artistry, but lack of exquisite brush side, although the expression of intention is reflected, but exaggerated the glyph, so that the structure of the word is seriously deformed, which is a fly in the ointment. I don't know what everyone thinks? We welcome our views and discussions.
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