Hello everyone, today we will talk about the terms in calligraphy and keep the pen. The same statement also has Dong Qichang's pen. Today, let's mainly analyze what is the pen and what is it used for.
What it means: Keep the pen.
As the name suggests, it is impossible to write with a pen, and each stroke is carefully arranged. It can't be like a wild horse, unrestrained. Retention is a deliberate, a process of careful polishing.
Summary: To keep the pen is to follow your own unique writing feeling, rhythm, and let the strokes achieve your own writing purpose.
What to keep?
1. The length of the strokes
This one is obvious, the long strokes give it shortened. Change the routine, break the routine. This gives a sense of surprise. For example, the words in the Magu Immortal Altar in the picture below. The strokes are very close. The main purpose of this collection is to compress the strokes in the realm, so it is this choice that produces a different spark.
This center shaft is very short, which naturally looks archaic.
The same is true for the paintings, which are short and thick, giving people a sense of restraint.
The picture above is also introverted.
2. The tip of the pen remains in the stroke. This is manifested as Zangfeng.
For example, the following three words, the style of the nephew's manuscript. Of course, except for Yan Zhenqing, other calligraphers have Zang Feng to use. Here is an example of Yan Zhenqing's words, in order to understand this feeling more clearly.
The source is hidden in the front, and the seal is written, so it has this kind of seal atmosphere. Sharp and restrained. In line with the mediocrity, peaceful, not excited, subtle beauty. This implication is interesting. For example, Chinese express love, which is very tactful. For example, "Where does the Jun family live, and the concubine lives in Hengtang." Stop the boat to ask for the time being, or I am afraid that it is a fellow villager. Home near the Jiujiang River, go to the side of the Jiujiang River. They are both long-term people, and they don't know each other when they are young. This ambiguous atmosphere is here. For example, "In heaven I wish to be a winged bird, and on earth I wish to be a branch." The days are long and sometimes endless, and this hatred lasts forever. For example, "the hooligan's scumbag, hugging the cloth trade silk." Bandits come to trade silk, and I seek to come", which is an implicit expression. It's very beautiful and meaningful.
It is different for foreigners to express their affection: you are so beautiful, I like you, I want to make friends with you......
The red domineering side leaks, and the black temperament is introverted. It's a fun experience.
3. Leave the strokes during the writing process.
In the process of stroke writing, it is mainly manifested in the astringency of the contrarian trend, which is a kind of pen power problem. In the process of writing, through some techniques, the strokes have the feeling of house leakage cone painting sand mark clay.
This "stay" is a means of astringency. Just improve the quality of the line. On the other hand, the strokes are floaty, and the strokes are slippery, and the texture is poor.
Mr. Sha Menghai's strong pen strength lies in the texture of the strokes. Twisted and astringent, the bone strength is very prominent.
Huang Tingjian's long lines are also a kind of astringency. It belongs to the category of staying. For example, if you draw in red in the picture above, and you can cross it directly, then the pen power is almost hot.
Not all things that are written with less dry pen and ink are astringent, and astringency is the friction between pen and ink and paper. From the point of view of the pen, the brush is still in a state where it can be written when writing. Conform to the testimonies. For example, if you poke the brush on the paper to the root of the pen, the tip of the pen is extremely loose, and no matter how astringent it is, it will not have an aesthetic feeling.
How about it? You can experience this feeling a little bit more. That's all for sharing here!
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