Wang Yong, a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and a famous Jinshi calligrapher and painter, recently held a personal "Qingengtang Couplet Calligraphy Exhibition" at the Xingtan Art Museum in Beijing, which attracted widespread attention from the society. Mr. Wang Yong is the main advocate of contemporary "popular book style", so his own calligraphy works are also controversial, the outside world for Mr. Wang Yong's calligraphy is also mixed, some people think that his lack of skills in writing, is a kind of "ugly book", some people think that Wang Yong calligraphy although its appearance is not proud, but it has experienced vicissitudes, very tasteful!
Of course, the comments of netizens may not be professional, but the comments of two contemporary calligraphy masters can represent two typical views. One of them is "Master Tian Kai" Tian Yunzhang, who once criticized Wang Yong's calligraphy:
"Popular book style" should be the current disadvantage of the contemporary book world, and Mr. Wang Yong's calligraphy is a major figure influencing this time disadvantage. So I put it very frankly, I am not a supporter of Wang Yong's calligraphy, nor am I a proponent of Wang Yong's calligraphy... Because he (Wang Yong) did not make the necessary efforts in inheriting traditional and orthodox calligraphy, there were too many forms. Therefore, he should bear some kind of responsibility for the current style of the times!
However, Chen Hongwu, an adviser to the China Book Association, commented on Wang Yong's calligraphy in the opposite way. Chen Hongwu was interviewed on the spot at the "Inch Gengtang Pair calligraphy exhibition" and gave a high evaluation. He said: Teacher Wang Yong's joint exhibition this time gave me more feelings in this regard. I think that some of the ancient couplets he chose, and even some of the couplets he wrote, have a very distinct artistic personality, coupled with his calligraphy - his calligraphy is the real grass seal is good at, especially the kind of big seal that is sealed, integrated into his cursive writing, I think his calligraphy, the face is more rich and colorful.
Chen Hongwu went on to say, Sometimes I feel that Wang Yong's Yang Lian seems to be plain, but in fact it is full of a kind of splendor! This is very difficult, that is to say, his brushwork is not a simple horizontal, an equal horizontal, but there are bumpy fluctuations and changes in a horizontal, which is his own personality, his own pursuit of life, and some of his own perceptions of life, melted into the blood of this law.
Chen Hongwu said: I saw a couplet by Mr. Wang Yong, and I can make a good summary of Mr. Wang Yong's joint exhibition this time. I may not remember what he wrote clearly, but he wrote: "I have not been able to meet the blood, but we must see the innocence from the true color." "A man who does not meet, who does not make a malicious tendency, can see his bloodiness; see a man who wants to see his innocent disposition, to see his romance, to see his lofty pursuits from the place where he is at his truest.
Tian Yunzhang bitterly criticized Wang Yong for "not making any effort in calligraphy", but Chen Hongwu said that "it looks bland, but in fact it is gorgeous", who is right and who is wrong? Dear netizens, how do you think about this world of evaluation. Welcome to leave a message to communicate.