In recent years, with the deepening of the process of mutual influence between Eastern and Western cultures, European Orientalists have become interested in studying the cultural and historical regions of various countries, believing that the rich spiritual and material heritage of these countries has been significantly enhanced.
Due to the long isolation of Eastern and Western cultures, little is known about these legacies of the East. Scholars on the mainland and other countries are increasingly interested in studying calligraphy, painting, music, aesthetics and other literary and artistic phenomena in various countries. Because the economic, political and historical development of the historical and cultural regions of Europe is different and different, there are some terms in The cultures of the East and the West that have different contents in the same composition.
It is their unique national characteristics that make it difficult for European audiences who do not know much about Oriental calligraphy, painting, music, aesthetics, and history to understand Chinese calligraphy. Through comparative analysis, European and Chinese scholars have explored certain cultural phenomena and achieved great results. Here, through the special factors of the types and genres of Eastern and Western art, the connotation and extension of the concept of European calligraphy and Chinese calligraphy are initially explored.
As a traditional Chinese culture, calligraphy is taken from it, and as a model of traditional Chinese culture, it has always been an art form appreciated by every Chinese. Learning calligraphy allows you to cultivate your personality, make your state of mind calm and magnanimous, and get real happiness and detachment from it.
Chinese art masters, in fact, their artistic philosophy is: nature with the heart to perceive themselves, the pursuit of transcendence, the creation of the state of mind, the transformation of the state from the heart. Crazy as a turmoil, desire without dispersion, free to get, the beauty of the perfect artistic spirit. The purpose of art is: big imagery, big momentum, big freehand, big interest, big ink, bold amount, big color, big environment, big personality.
Spirituality and conception are: highlighting poetic interest, paying attention to spiritual connotation, feeling and hair, moving at will, reorganizing composition, dividing and grafting, blending and interlacing, and recreating the artistic conception. Artistic style is combined with personality, life and creation are combined, and spiritual connotation is combined with ideological realm. Familiar with calligraphy pen and ink is no longer the integration of painting tools, but the expression of calligraphy's perception of objects. The topic selection is novel, the arguments are clear, the arguments are fully true, the argumentation process is accurate, the logic is rigorous, and the conclusions are true. The process of exposition fully embodies the principle of combining theory from history and the theory.
First of all, european calligraphy and Chinese interpretations of the concept of calligraphy are not exactly the same. In Western Europe, it referred to a beautifully and clearly written art, mainly related to the chroniclers, scribes, and bookscribes of the countries of medieval Europe, and then to the court and government documents.
The writing instruments and materials used by these people are parchment, plain paper, ink and quill pens. This concept has little to do with writing in general, that is, people's non-official writing. Therefore, the achievements of European calligraphy were mainly carried out in government departments and monasteries where writing schools were required to write and copy religious books. By the end of the nineteenth century, this unique art form in Europe was in decline.
The Chinese interpretation of calligraphy is relatively broad, and it refers to all hieroglyphic symbols created by hand. That is to say, regardless of the specific materials and tools of writing, there are no restrictions of the times.
Therefore, Chinese masters of art actually incorporated all inscriptions into this concept, starting from the Yin Dynasty in the middle of the second millennium BC, oracle bones to bronze ware of the Zhou Dynasty, from the perspective of European aesthetics, calligraphy is first related to inscriptions on paper, and has little to do with inscriptions on other materials. Thus, in the european view, the concept of "Chinese calligraphy" first refers to words inscribed in ink on paper, although the classical period in the history of Chinese calligraphy was no less inscribed on stone than on paper or silk.
For this reason, europeans have a hard time viewing oracle bones and bronzes as works of calligraphy. Because according to the scientific conception of the Europeans, such relics are traditionally inscribed, and they arouse people's interest first from the perspective of paleography or historiography.
Yang Xiuhe, (pen name: Xiaoyang) Chang Chun Zhai Lord, is a famous contemporary calligrapher, painter, calligraphy and painting educator. Born in 1955 in Beijing, China, he is a member of the Chinese Folk Photographers Association, an academician of the Chinese National Arts People's Academy of Calligraphy and Painting, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Calligraphy and Painting, and a member of the Calligraphy and Painting Institute of the Beijing Yuelian Society.
Yang Xiu, the master of Changchun Zhai, and his teacher's calligraphy and painting works have participated in the "Chinese Treasures Stamp Album" for many times and published dozens of works. Yang Xiuhe, the master of Changchun Zhai, has published works in magazines such as "Chinese Volunteers", "Caifeng China", "Hebei Contemporary Calligraphy and Painting", "China Weekly", "Focus on Contemporary Art" and was included in the "Dictionary of Chinese Celebrities" in 2021.
Yang Xiuhe is a famous contemporary calligrapher and painter, his calligraphy works will exceed 10 million yuan per year, if according to the current market conditions, Yang Xiuhe wrote eight words of four feet of calligraphy, the price is generally about 30,000 yuan.
In the spring of 2018, Yang Xiuhe wrote eight words "Boguan about to take, thick accumulation and thin hair", auctioned at Poly Auction House, the specification is four feet of the whole sheet, the estimated price is 15,000 yuan, and the final auction price is 80,000 yuan. Under normal circumstances, Yang Xiuhe's calligraphy runge per square foot is about 3,000 yuan, but individual fine products may reach more than 10,000 yuan per square foot runge.