The Lanting Award, as the highest honor in Chinese calligraphy art, has become the vane of the calligraphy industry since its establishment, leading the development direction and aesthetic trend of calligraphy art. Through the list of winners of the previous Lanting Awards and their artistic characteristics, we can get a glimpse of the development of Chinese calligraphy art and feel the charm and vitality of calligraphy art.
Approved by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee and sponsored by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Chinese Calligraphers Association, the Lanting Award is the highest award in Chinese calligraphy art, established in 2001. The award is named after the "Orchid Pavilion" in the "Orchid Pavilion Collection Preface" by the sage Wang Xizhi, symbolizing the highest honor of calligraphy. The Lanting Award aims to recognize calligraphers who have made outstanding achievements in the field of calligraphy and promote the inheritance and innovation of calligraphy.
As an important award for the art of calligraphy, the Lanting Award has played a positive role in promoting the inheritance of the art of calligraphy. Most of the winners of the previous Rantei Awards are calligraphers with profound attainments in the field of calligraphy. Through their own efforts and creations, they have carried forward the traditional art of calligraphy.
For example, Pan Zhulan, the winner of the first Lanting Award Lifetime Achievement Award, has taken oracle bone calligraphy as his main research field, pushing the art of oracle bone calligraphy to new heights. His calligraphy works not only have high artistic value, but also make important contributions to the theoretical study of calligraphy.
The Lanting Award not only promotes the inheritance of the art of calligraphy, but also encourages the innovation of the art of calligraphy. Among the winners of the previous Rantei Awards, we can see many calligraphers who have made remarkable achievements in the innovation of the art of calligraphy. Through continuous experimentation and exploration, they combine traditional calligraphy art with modern aesthetics to create calligraphy works with the characteristics of the times.
For example, Mao Guodian, who is one of the outstanding representatives of contemporary Chinese calligraphy, has incorporated his own unique artistic style on the basis of inheriting the tradition. In the selection of the Lanting Award Creation Award, Mao Guodian's official calligraphy works stood out with their unique artistic charm and innovative spirit. His works are rigorous and standardized in the structure of the characters, and flexible in the strokes, which not only have the simplicity and elegance of traditional official calligraphy, but also integrate the free and unrestrained modern calligraphy.
Zhang Ji is another calligrapher who won the Lanting Award for Creation. His works are mainly characterized by the alternation of seals and subliminaries, and show a unique artistic charm through the skillful use of brushwork and the change of ink color. Zhang Ji pays attention to the richness and layering of brush and ink in his creation, and skillfully integrates the characteristics of the two styles of seal and subordinate calligraphy through the appropriate shade of ink color change and the delicate use of brushwork. His works have both the simplicity and elegance of seal script, and the vivid and smooth script.
Zhang Shengwei's cursive writing works have attracted much attention at the Lanting Award Creation Award. On the basis of inheriting the tradition, his cursive writing works incorporate his own unique artistic style and innovative elements. Zhang Shengwei pays attention to the change of brushwork and the grasp of rhythm in his creation, and creates a vivid artistic effect through the alternating fast and slow brushstrokes and the change of light and heavy ink colors. His works have both the smoothness and naturalness of writing and the uninhibited cursive writing.
Cui Hanbai, the winner of the Lanting Gold Award, has formed a unique personal style with his calligraphy that draws on the strengths of others, is still natural, uses the pen smartly, writes at will, and expresses himself with generosity. Between the lines, there is a kind of temple luxury, which is especially rare among contemporary calligraphers.
By discussing the development of Chinese calligraphy from the perspective of the Lanting Award, we can see that the art of calligraphy continues to grow and develop through inheritance and innovation. As an important award for the art of calligraphy, does the Lanting Award play a positive role in promoting the inheritance and innovation of calligraphy art or is it the opposite? Through the selection of a few in the article, I think you can also know a little bit about it, and finally leave the right of judgment to you.