He was a master of the cursive writing industry, a minister and calligrapher in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. In calligraphy, the "Second King" is followed, especially Wang Xianzhi, in addition to extensive involvement in the Wei, Jin, Tang and Song dynasties, the study of the "Ge Ti" is the most in-depth, and the ShiGu Lin Ti is unique. His calligraphy is unique, known as the "Divine Pen", and he is Wang Duo.
As Wang Duo, who has "the first calligraphy of the Ming Dynasty", calligraphy is on a par with Dong Qichang, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he was known as the "King of Southern Dong and Northern China". He was called by Kai Gong as "juesi pen power can carry the top, five hundred years without this king", even the Japanese book world has highly praised him.
Wang Duo took the fa gaogu, competed with the rigid and boring, slippery and weak style of writing, boldly innovated, and created a generation of book styles. He was an outstanding innovator in the history of calligraphy. Influenced by the ideological trend of the times in his youth, Wang Duo had a strange stubborn mind of the trend of reflection very early on, and many calligraphies showed his shocking aesthetics.
And his greatest achievement was his cursive writing. His cursive brushwork is atmospheric, wild and wild, free to wield, dripping with pain, calm and painful with the pen, vertical and horizontal ups and downs, natural surprise, showing a shocking majestic momentum, very infectious.
His inkblots have been passed down through the generations, and many of his inscriptions have been engraved in stone, and his calligraphy is very popular in Japan, South Korea, Singapore and other countries. The Japanese people greatly appreciated Wang Duo's calligraphy, and thus evolved into a school, called "Ming and Qing tones". His "Quasi-Mountain Garden" was introduced to Japan and was a sensation, listing Wang Duo as a first-class calligrapher, called "Hou Wang (Wang Duo) ShengXian Wang (Wang Xizhi)".
Li Zhimin commented: "Wang Duo's cursive writing is indulgent, unrestrained, vertical and horizontal, and deep in bone."
Among his many calligraphies, "Wang Duo Cursive Gift Zhang Baoyi Poetry Scroll" is a fine work written by him in Huaizhou, and the original is now in the National Museum of Tokyo, Japan, intact.
The content of the work is Five Seven Laws Poems by Wang Duo's self-made gift friend Zhang Baoyi, with poem titles and end-of-volume paragraphs, and the whole Fa Ti has a total of 336 Chinese characters and 75 lines.
The whole line of pen can be longitudinal, the knot body is unpredictable, the dot painting is intricate, and the lines are dry and solid.
In terms of the art and technique of calligraphy, the book "Wang Duo Cursive Writing Gift Zhang Bao a Volume of Poetry" was written in the fifteenth year of Ming Chongzhen, when Wang Duo was fifty years old, and had already experienced the persistent study of the "Second King" and Mi Fu for many years, and finally completed the "self-transformation".
According to previous works, the author's "like a lamp to take pictures of the two kings and mi fu, without losing any hair", by the time of "Giving Zhang Bao a Cursive Poetry Scroll", he had already got rid of the traces of imitation and had a strong subjective and majestic attitude.
The "Gift Zhang Baoyi Cursive Poetry Scroll" is also one of the earlier pieces of Wang Duo's cursive long volume.
In his book, the dot painting line shows its elasticity to produce movement, and the operation is very impactful, Wang Duo successfully applied the force to the change of calligraphy dot painting, so that the pen in the silk, twisting, paper movement process produces a bump, a back, a strange, mutation, so that the personality of the play to the extreme.
In particular, the pen full of passion seems to have the power of bending iron and wielding it freely.
The characters that appear throughout are left and right, the pen is old and spicy, and the rules are relaxed. Easy as Zhang Xu's wild grass "Four Ancient Poems", the pen walks the dragon and snake, unpredictable.
On this basis, Wang Duo further pursues the dangerous, abrupt, expansion and introverted trend in the book, and those who lead the literacy can appreciate the movement trajectory in his pen and stroke.
There is a saying in Chinese painting that ink is divided into five colors, and the use of ink thickness, lightness, dryness and wetness can make the picture produce endless changes and show the vitality of interest.
Wang Duo realized the way of using ink from Chinese painting and boldly applied it to calligraphy creation, thus enhancing the visual effect of the work and exerting the method of increasing ink to the extreme.
In "Wang Duo's Cursive Book Gift zhang bao a volume of poetry", there are many places that highlight his masterpieces, which can be described as the ultimate expression of magnificent power.
The bibliophile Jiang Shaoshu of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties commented on his calligraphy in the "History of Silent Poetry": "The father and son of The Cursive Emperor Shanyin (Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi), the main book is out of Zhong Yuanchang, although the model Zhong Wang, he can also come out of his chest. ”
The modern scholar Kang Youwei praised him: "The pen drum is sluggish and dense, and the zhenyuan ming is strong." ”
In modern times, Xu Beihong once had a poem that used the extremely variable "divine dragon" of "pan, jiao, and mite" to compare the image created by Wang Duo's cursive writing, and praised it: "There is Ming calligraphy pushing first, and it is comparable to the empty Kunwei." He even asked, "Wen An poetry makes a fierce tiger roar, who holds the king's character and looks male and female?" ”
Wang Duo's calligraphy had a great influence on later generations. In the early Qing Dynasty, after Fu Shan was influenced by Wang Duo's calligraphy style, he created a large and varied body and marked the book world. In modern times, the calligraphers who have been most deeply influenced by Wang Duo's calligraphy style, such as Lin Sanzhi, Sha Menghai, Shen Peng and other calligraphers, have conducted in-depth research on Wang Duo's calligraphy and drawn excellent nutrients.
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