Feel the beauty of the rhythm from Chairman Mao's calligraphy works after the founding of the People's Republic of China
Li Shuting
The rhythm of calligraphy is mainly manifested in the light and heavy rhythm of the pen, the thick and dry transformation of the ink, the staggering of the size of the glyphs up and down, and the dense change of the distance between the lines. Sun Guoting's "Book Genealogy" has a dialectical and unified exposition of prosody: "Violation is not committed, harmony is different; Stay is not often late, and the dispatch is not permanent; With dry square run, will be thick and dry, the rules in the square circle, the hook rope in the curve. "The calligraphy after the founding of Mao Zedong was extremely particular about rhythm, so looking at its inkblots, it will have endless appeal.
In the early 1960s, Mao Zedong's handwriting Li Bai 's poem "Between the Clouds of the White Emperor, a Thousand Miles of Jiangling A Day" is a poem with ink, the lines are solid and beautiful, the ink is dry and dry, and the pen is both fast and slow, both the rushing rhyme of the White Emperor and the twilight to Jiangling, and the leisure and elegance of the ape roaring and the tiger roaring, and the waves of the waves, admiring this inkblot, it makes the viewer think of it, producing a dynamic beauty, a kind of painful rhythm, a kind of excitement and excitement.
On October 8, 1960, Mao Zedong wrote an inscription for the staff of the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, "Hardship and Simplicity.". From the perspective of the weight of the pen: these four words are light and heavy; From the perspective of the rapidity of the line of writing: respectively, it is a disease and a disease; From the perspective of drying with ink: respectively, dry and dry; From the size of the glyphs: the size is the size. The whole work is full of ups and downs, and the intestines are full of breath. From this, we can see that this kind of rhythm that cannot be modified and compensated must be completed in the moment of the writer's swing, constituting a superb work of art that is staggered, meticulous and stable, and eye-catching, and if there is no inspiration and superb skill of the natural opportunity, without solid kung fu, it will not work in any way.
(Excerpt from Li Shuting's "On the Art of Mao Zedong's Calligraphy", title added)