Hello everyone, today I would like to share Zhang Xukai's official stone records. Zhang Xu is best known for his cursive handwriting. There are three reasons why he is so famous.
1. Cursive writing is a must
Cursive writing was a must, and it was very famous at the time, and Li Bai wrote poems to praise it many times.
2. Inheritor of Wang Xi's brushwork
Zhang Xu's name is prominently listed in Wang Xizhi's penmanship inheritance atlas, and his calligraphy roots are red.
3. Yan Zhenqing studied with him, and there is Zhang Changshi's penmanship 12 meanings to corroborate.
Yan Lugong came to the door many times to seek advice and got the inheritance. Therefore, Yan Lugong also wrote an article record of "Zhang Changshi's Twelve Meanings".
We have to catch up and catch up when we study. In this way, you can learn better. For example, if you study Yan Zhenqing, his teacher's regular script should not be missed. This can be compared and analyzed, how Yan Zhenqing learned, what he learned, what he absorbed, and how we absorbed other advantages in the process of learning. This is a good reference.
Looking at this regular calligraphy post, it can be seen that its knots are extended outside and inside, and the knots are simple and natural, and the overall feeling is broad. Zhang Xu is behind Chu Suiliang on the inheritance map, and Chu Suiliang's shadow can be faintly seen. In terms of stroke thickness, it looks smart.
Yan Zhenqing absorbed the technique of using the pen and knotting words. You must know that the ancients have a complete set of logic in penmanship, calligraphy, and chapters. After Yan Zhenqing absorbed, the strokes were thickened and the broad body was taken from the body. Take the fun of the old.
Zhang Xu's clumsiness lies in the surprise of the structure, the retraction, and the structural arrangement. His clever outwardness. Yan Zhenqing's words are ancient and clumsy all the way at a glance, except for a few early inscriptions. His words are clumsy, so where is his ingenuity? For example, some paintings, normally are released and unfolded. He painted a lot of short ones in the Magu Immortal Altar Record, and there was a little swallowtail. Looks clumsy. But creating this clumsiness is itself a manifestation of people's ingenuity.
Zhang Xu's words are obviously two kings all the way, and there are many characteristics of Zhong Xuan's knotted words, which is due to the fact that Wang Xizhi is also in the same vein as Zhong Xuan.
This regular script work is also bounded. For example, in the picture above, Yan Zhenqing has inherited and absorbed it. The top is spacious and large, and the bottom is compact and short. The normal lifting of the last vertical needs to be slightly elongated, here due to the limitation of the grid, due to the habit of knotting, the bottom is very short. Short and clumsy.
Zhang Xu's broadness is an internal brushwork, and the words are broad. Yan Zhenqing is an outward extension of penmanship. Although they both belong to Kuanbo Road in essence, the two are also different.
When we are learning Yan Zhenqing, these Zhang Xukai books, then we can absorb Zhang Xu's methods when we are changing and innovating. His writing method can be better approached by Wei Bei Kaishu all the way. You can chase the two kings on the top, and you can write Wei monuments on the side. It is still more conducive to integration and innovation.
Zhang Xu pressed a lot, and Yan Zhenqing pressed and added a middle line of pen movements. Therefore, Yan Zhenqing's character is thicker as a whole.
Heavy characters are better for writing large characters. This also provides an idea of writing large and small characters from the side. The smaller the word, the more it is, such as as the small to the small Kai, and the tip of the pen constitutes the appearance of the stroke.
Writing large characters starts and ends with more complete movements. In this way, the big characters are calm and imposing. The strokes are empty, and the momentum of the big characters cannot be seen.
Pay attention to the three glyphs: flat, square, long, and long.
When you learn, you must think, and even draw inferences. There will be more to learn this way.
When copying a work, I personally think that seven points lie in speculation and thinking, and three points lie in actual operation. Find more problems and summarize more. This kind of copying is also twice the result with half the effort. Efficiency is also twice the result with half the effort.
Immersed in hard work, the hard work of writing is abnormal, and the efficiency is not high, mainly because I didn't find a way and have fun. When you do your research, you find some fun, like solving a crime, peeling back the cocoon through clues, and finally finding the result. Experiment while learning, analyzing, and experimenting. Use your hands and brains. After all, the art of calligraphy is the art of combining the mind and the hands, not just manual labor.
Well, let's share it here, I wish you all to improve every day!
(ENDS)