Yan Zhenqing's 63-year-old work "Sending Liu Taichong to Narrate" integrates regular script, line script, and cursive script, but it is natural and harmonious, and constructs a unique aesthetic realm.
Yan Zhenqing's book "Sending Liu Taichong to Narrate" is a long scroll
Yan Zhenqing's book "Sending Liu Taichong to Narrate" is a long scroll
Many people say that Yan Zhenqing surpassed Wang Xizhi in calligraphy with this work, but in fact, the transcendence here refers to Yan Zhenqing's extremely successful exploration in the calligraphy path of different "two kings" system.
Mi Fu commented on this "send Liu Taichong Xu": "Radiant hair, dragon snake vivid, amazing." ”
"Radiant" refers to Yan Zhenqing's bold innovation, using the seal brushwork into the Kai, Xing, and grass, so that the lines are full and round, like a dragon and snake flying, which makes people look extremely excited.
Yan Zhenqing's book "Sending Liu Taichong to Narrate" is a long scroll
Yan Zhenqing's book "Sending Liu Taichong to Narrate" is a long scroll
Yan Zhenqing's book "Sending Liu Taichong to Narrate" is a long scroll
Yan Zhenqing, a native of Jingzhao Wannian (now Xi'an, Shaanxi), was a famous minister and calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. His calligraphy is exquisite, and he is good at lines and letters. He began to learn Chu Suiliang's calligraphy, and later apprenticed to Zhang Xu, obtained his pen movement techniques and calligraphy essence, and created "Yan Ti" regular script. He and Zhao Mengfu, Liu Gongquan, and Ouyang Xun are known as the "Four Masters of Regular Script". It is also called "Yan Liu" and Liu Gongquan, and is called "Yan Muscle Willow Bone".
Yan body, with the characteristics of plump and majestic, majestic atmosphere, the pen is thick, containing muscles and bones, free and strong, strong and powerful. For the president, it can be summed up in four words: round, square, even, and sparse:
1. Circular rotation. The starting pen of the face body is round and turned to hide the front, with a typical silkworm head shape, with an arc when some vertical paintings, and the circle is seen in the square, giving people a rounded feeling and having a centripetal force.
2. Fairness. Yan body with a strong pen, good use of the center of the penmanship, both muscles and bones, there are also sharp, the general horizontal painting is slightly thin, vertical painting, point, apostrophe, slightly thick, giving people a flat and stable, not floating cognition.
3. Uniformity. When dealing with the left and right structure of the characters, the face will be balanced and harmonious with the left and right, and the contrast will not be obvious.
4. Sparse. When writing, the face body adopts the way of tightening the outside and loosening the inside, which is mostly encircled, giving people a sense of sparseness and generosity.
Source: Yan Zhenqing Calligraphy Garden