Ding Yuangong Cursive "Self-written Poems" Volume on Paper Hand Scroll 28.2x213.5cm Cursive 64 Lines Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing
Ding Yuangong's cursive "Zishu Poems" volume is printed with 2 sides of the "Shijing Yiyin" and "Wishing An" prints. The first Wang Shouqi seal book "Ming Xian Shihan". The collection is printed with Wang Fumin, Tan Guancheng and other 7 indians. In the text, "after the unitary" and "spring of the penzi", the chronology is the second year of Qing Shunzhi (1645) and the fifth year of Shunzhi (1648). Shi Ding Yuangong had gone to become a monk. It can be seen from the text that this is a poem written by Ding Yuangong at the invitation of Weng Xunying, "sitting in the new green of the mountain forest", and after gathering with many friends. The calligraphy of "Self-written Poems" is strange in form, the size of the glyphs is staggered, interspersed with each other, the length of the strokes is arbitrary, the jumps and jumps are very large, and the thickness of the lines is rich. The calligraphy of this volume is straightforward, dangerous, and exposed, with the potential to create dangers.
Ding Yuangong, painter of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, character yuan gong, Zhejiang Jiaxing cloth. Later, he was a monk, named Jingyi, and was called a wish temple. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, he served as a prefecture and county. Painting landscapes and human hand Buddha statues, old and beautiful, work without fiber. Writing Guan Zhuangmiao is like awe-inspiring and angry. He is also a fine seal and a good writer of poetry. After becoming a monk, he specialized in painting Buddha statues, and the landscape brush and ink were particularly lofty. Taste the Buddhas, monks, and venerables of the Great Kaye, from the Ming Dynasty To the Lotus Pond Master, painted into a huge book, each of them knows the deeds. Chongzhen three years (1630) as a dead wood bamboo fan.
The artistic expression of cursive writing has always been various: some cursive laws and regulations, such as the cursive ruler of the "Two Kings", the cursive writing in Zhiyong's "True Grass Thousand Character Text", etc.; some gossamer are gentle and entangled, such as Huaisu's cursive, Song Dynasty's gossamer book, etc.; some boldly drop ink, are radiant, and are driven by temperament, and express the joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness in their hearts freely, such as Zhang Xu's cursive... With the development of time, the diversified expressions of calligraphy art have been discovered more by people. The people of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties made calligraphy, especially cursive art, more personal. Of course, some personalities are docile and well-behaved; some are obedient and promiscuous; some are subtle and gentle; some are indulgent and arbitrary... thus forming a magnificent and magical artistic landscape. Ding Yuangong's cursive "Self-written Poems" volume has the characteristics of "obedient" cursive writing.
Calligraphy works such as "obedience" have the following characteristics: as far as the pointillist brush is concerned, do not seek "similarity", nor seek "god-likeness", only seek "heart-likeness", completely take the image of the heart as the image of calligraphy dot painting, that is, "write it with the heart, seek the heart image", use the pen boldly and indulgently, transport what you want in your heart to the end of the pen, the pen moves with emotion, do not use the rules of the calligraphy pen to regulate their own point by point, the strokes such as the center, the flank, the astringency, the sudden setback and other brushwork are almost all by the emotion; from the perspective of the knot body, the "dangerous" is the mainstay, Strive to achieve the purpose of lyricism in the situation of the side and the indulgence of the glyph, a large number of "exaggerated" "word-making" techniques, or extend the vertical pen, or widen the distance between the left and right parts, or increase the stroke of the staggered, twists and turns, etc., in the knot and strive to change and enhance the visual impact; from the point of view of the chapter, the law of equilibrium is diluted, but pay more attention to the expressiveness and emotional appeal of the work itself.
Looking at the cursive writing of ding yuangong's "self-written poems" volume, the author believes that there are three points worthy of in-depth study and discussion by scholars. First, from the performance of cursive calligraphy itself, as a tool for people to exchange ideas and emotions, the meaning of calligraphy works that they have "symbolized" or "languageized" cannot be lost, and without the meaning of expression, there is no meaning. Clarity is key, and even wild cursive writing can be interpreted, so it is necessary to create according to the norms of cursive cursive law. Second, when creating cursive, pay attention to the relationship between personal emotions and cursive calligraphy works. In the process of cursive development, personal emotions will play a great role in promoting. However, the simplest fact cannot be violated: there is cursive first, and then the emotions added in cursive, just as there is matter and then consciousness. Third, everyone's understanding of calligraphy is very different, so different people's creativity in calligraphy is also different, and this creativity is closely related to his experience and thoughts.
Ding Yuangong was cloth cloth in his early years, and later converted to Buddhism. In the sacred Pure Land, calligraphy is a manifestation and means of relaxation for Ding Yuangong, and it is completely a kind of aimless "immortal" like "wandering". Therefore, to view Ding Yuangong's cursive "Self-written Poems" volume, we should combine the author's life situation and ideological realm, and cannot only look at the works with works. Moreover, it is difficult to interpret this calligraphy work at a deeper level just from the work itself, and even we will have the question of "Is this also calligraphy".
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