Where there are people, there will be contention, and where there are people, there will be blind comparison, which is an eternal and unchangeable truth, and since ancient times, there will be a proud name of the literati and inkers.
Therefore, this kind of blind comparison and mutual contempt is very extensive in the literary world, but even if the literati and inkers are indifferent, in the case of comparison or like to compare with people similar to themselves, it is not easy to compare with people who are stronger than themselves.
This is the case with two dissenting people in China's literary circles today, they are a generation of masters in the field of calligraphy and painting, Fan Zeng, and Li Ao, who has written thousands of books. For Li Ao, I firmly believe that everyone will have some mastery, he is a representative of the literati and inkers in Taiwan, and the greater characteristic is that he likes to swear, and what is even more admired is that he can scold anyone when he sees it, and this person is arrogant by nature.
Fan Zeng is a master in the field of calligraphy and painting, and his calligraphy and paintings are very highly cultivated in the industry, but he seems to have the same personality as Li Ao, that is, he regards himself as high, but how many people in the literary world can guarantee that they will not seek fame and fortune?
The two men failed to ensure harmony, because in Li Ao's view of Fan Zeng, this person was not worthy of an external view of him, that is to say, Li Ao scolded Fan Zeng for not being worthy of the title of master.
Naturally, what he often says is not to deny Fan's achievements in fine art painting, but to refer to the level of calligraphy art, the bias is very established, because Li Ao once frankly said that Fan zeng was "temperamental and disgusted", two people on the same scene pk calligraphy art, who is the real kung fu. These two are highly controversial in culture and art, and everyone thinks that who loses and who wins?
Pictured above are Li Ao and Fan Zeng
1. Li Ao and Fan Zeng
Before comparing the calligraphy and paintings of two people, let's discuss the lives of two people, because it is the basic rule to integrate his life and experience in the case of evaluating a literati and inker, so that you can better understand the situation of their writing and the origin of their writing design style.
Look at Li Ao first. Li Ao was born in Heilongjiang Province in 1935, his father Li Dingyi previously studied at Peking University, which shows that Li Ao's cultural and artistic path should be more or less influenced by his father, in 1949, Li Ao, who was in junior high school, followed his father to Taiwan, and then moved to Taiwan to study and grow up here.
Li Ao's creative path began around 1961, when his first book was included in the magazine "Wenxing", and since then he has formed a deep relationship with the creation.
In 2000, he had also won the Nobel Prize candidates before, so Li Ao's literary examination results were still well known, after all, Zong Pu, the winner of the first Nobel Prize in China, was also awarded in 2012, but Li Ao got the candidate in the first year of the Common Era.
But even so, Li Ao still has a lot of objections, the source of the objection is not other, is Li Ao's kind of arrogant temperament, it is possible that many people's impression of Li Ao is all like to swear, like to expose people's shortcomings, detailed about the people who have been scolded by Li Ao, from the cultural and artistic celebrities down to the nameless juniors.
The writer Wang Shuo has shown before: "Li Ao, he is a little too arrogant! He has a distinctly competitive spirit and is reluctant to suffer big losses. It can be seen that Li Ao's situation is also well known in the industry, and Xiao Meng also commented that Li Ao was "talented and virtuous" before his death. ”
To understand that the masters of culture and art generally pursue perfect double Xin, but Li Ao is put to death and born later, preferring to scold people again in order to better be happy than to hide his sincerity in order to better have a popularity.
But there is a very interesting situation Li Ao scolded many people, in various fields, but for the calligraphy art world of Li Ao is very rare to say comments, but Li Ao is not pleasing to the eye, that is Fan Zeng.
Li Ao once said that Fan Zeng's character problems are of course reliable, and his paintings look very good at first glance, but they are too much and the same." His words were disgusting, and the brush calligraphy in the accounting room was just that, "In the language, you can see Li Ao's contempt for Fan Zeng.
Let's talk about Fan Zeng. Born in Jiangsu Province in 1938, Fan Zeng is a Chinese artist of object painting and calligraphy, and his achievements are very numerous, such as honorary professor and doctoral supervisor of Nankai University in Tianjin, teacher of Chinese Culture Academy of Peking University, and expert professors and teachers of universities.
Among them, Fan Zeng's greatest achievement was that he was appointed to UNESCO's "Special Adviser on Multiculturalism", which is also the first person in our country to receive this award. Therefore, Fan Zeng's cultivation at the level of calligraphy and painting is not worse than That of Li Ao.
But Fan Zeng, a person, is also a person with stains, it is not clear whether the smell is similar, Li Ao and Fan Zeng still have a lot of similarities, otherwise they would not be so serious with each other.
Lee KuChan
Speaking of Fan Zeng's negative information comments, the most fierce of them is Fan Zeng's mentor, the contemporary famous painter Li Kuchan's comments on Fan Zeng, according to the general situation, students have test results, teachers will also follow the joy of the light, but Mr. Li Kuchan does not feel so much, he even said before his death, "Without Fan Zeng's student, the sub-lineage of Zhongshan wolves, the situation has become rampant."
This comment is very influential for Fan Zeng, which means that his own teachers are reluctant to recognize his true identity, which shows that Fan Zeng is also obvious at the level of character.
But even if many people feel that Fan Zeng has a criticism of integrity, but this does not harm Fan Zeng's examination results at the level of fine arts and painting, his works may have won the favor of many people, it is likely that everyone thinks that the art masters and crafts can be separated, but Li Ao is different, Li Ao not only feels that Fan Zeng's character is not good, even Fan Zeng's calligraphy art is not good.
2. Duel of calligraphy art
Neither Li Ao nor Fan Zeng is a professional researcher of calligraphy art, but both of them are full of perfection and treatment for calligraphy art, and they both feel that their calligraphy art is a huge production, and it is good for people to have self-confidence, but excessive self-confidence becomes pride and it is easy to lose themselves.
Speaking of Li Ao's calligraphy and paintings and his integrity, it is true that they are different, and the name of the characters as his people seems to be impossible for him, because of this self-expression, his calligraphy and paintings should also be exhausted to show themselves, but on the contrary, Li Ao's calligraphy and paintings are very restrained.
It is likely that due to the influence of his true identity as a scholar, Li Ao's characters are also heavily influenced by traditional Chinese culture, and in the case of writing brush characters, they are dashing and free, and the gentle aura of the literati inkers and Chinese characters are closely combined, resulting in a different art of literati and inker calligraphy, which is completely different from Li Ao's aura.
Talk about Fan Zeng's words, his words and his real identity are relatively in line with a lot, the words are full of poetry, Fan once paid great attention to the smoothness of the line in the case of writing brush words, try to avoid twists and turns, the pen blade naturally changes, really ensure that the ink goes with my heart I write my heart of the realm of life, but many people comment that his words are artists' words, not enough for outsiders.
Although the characters of these two people are very different in style, in the eyes of the real calligraphy, they are just craftsman words, and they can't talk about the level of masters, so it is still okay to exchange ideas with each other, but if they are really high or low, everyone has shortcomings, but they also have design styles.
Nowadays, Li Ao and Fan Zeng will no longer have so many quarrels about the level of words, because Li Ao has already died of illness.
And Fan Zeng learned public welfare charity, put his own wealth funds into social development, for these people who must help to send warmth, these two masters are in comparison all their lives, to the elderly also look down, who wins and who loses how to do it, everyone cherishes, personal pursuit of perfection, personal hobbies can be, moderate comparison is OK, too much comparison is easy to hurt the body.