Master of calligraphy or master of art?

Recently, the famous calligrapher Wang Dongling calligraphy art 60 years of exhibition held in Hangzhou was grandly opened, and for a time the comments on Master Wang's calligraphy works were stirred up again, and the happy people were highly respected, and the evil people scolded it, calling it a chaotic book, and extreme comments could not be disputed.

In fact, in my personal opinion, Wang Dongling's calligraphy attainments are indeed very deep, otherwise he would not have been able to enter the Book Association as a director and vice chairman, and be called a calligrapher, but the name of the master is still not enough. Ancient and modern Chinese and foreign can be called masters are the founders of the Kaizong founding school, Although Wang Dongling's calligraphy is harmonious and profound, it also has its own personality and innovation, but perhaps because he wants to become a master and become a immortal too much, from the perspective of calligraphy, in fact, some of them are crazy, his innovation deviates from the original meaning of calligraphy, more for gimmicks, more integrated into the ideas of Chinese painting, art and design in the works, so in his current chaotic works, look at the writing line flowing water, magnificent momentum, superb technique, but do not know what to write! However, although the whole picture looks messy, it feels quite beautiful, because in his creation, he integrates the calligraphy brushwork, the beauty of the lines, the beauty of the brush and ink of the Chinese painting and the composition, picture and modern design ideas in the fine art, so the whole work is more like a fine art work than a calligraphy work, it is just cloaked in the skin of calligraphy. Just like the popular folk jianghu calligraphy, learn a little calligraphy fur, and then combine the writing style and structure of art characters to think of themselves as innovative schools, and begin to accept apprentices to run schools, cheating to eat and drink, and the masters on the short video platform belong to this category. Of course, Master Wang does not belong to this category, and his works are still of great artistic value and calligraphy skills.

Calligraphy, as the name suggests, is the law of writing, and Master Wang's chaotic works believe that even if Wang Xizhi reads it again, he will only look confused. Calligraphy innovation is not innovation for innovation's sake, and calligraphy art is not performance art!