Wang's favorite | the "calligraphy wizard" of the Ming Dynasty, and passed on the positive vein of calligraphy with the brush and ink of gao gu

In the Ming calligraphy, Wang Pet can be said to be a unique one. Wang Pet (1494~1533), zi lu ren, later more zi lu ji, the number Ofa Yishan people, Suzhou Wu County people. He is a famous calligrapher in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, one of the "Four Houses of Wumen" in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, born in the era when the "Wumen Shu School" was on the rise, and was active in the heyday of the "Wu men Shu School".

Specializing in Xiao Kai, Xingcao, is a creative calligrapher. Although he died early at the age of 40, there are many of his works, among which Xiao Kai is the most important, and xiao Kai is graceful and elegant.

In Suzhou at that time, such as Zhao Mengfu, Ni Zhan and others can write a beautiful small Kai, in the Ming Dynasty and Wang Pet and his teacher and friend Wen Zhengming also wrote a beautiful small Kai and famous, and in the early Ming Dynasty to take the book, in the imperial examination system invisibly in the book style required them to be good at Xiao Kai, so that the regional culture where Wang Pet lived formed a strong tradition of Xiao Kai.

Wang Pet himself is talented and intelligent, temperament is high and bright, reading and diligent, poetry and painting can be, he wrote articles to take Sima Qian and Ban Gu, and wrote poetry based on the Sheng Tang as the standard, requiring himself to take the law as the standard. Others are of high moral character and diligent in their studies. Therefore, although Wang Pet's short life did not leave a young name in the official career, he left his own indelible mark in the field of calligraphy art.

In the environment where the Talents of the Wumen Shu Sect are born, they can form an artistic style that is very different from the people of the times, and become the backbone of the Wu men Shu School after Zhu Yunming and Wen Zhengming. This entails his unique aesthetic pursuits. The so-called "book is the voice of the heart", his unique life experience, high moral cultivation and detached aesthetic pursuit have created his "sparse" book style.

The overall feeling given by Wang Pet Xiaokai is "light". This "lightness" mainly comes from its "simplicity" in the use of pens, knots, and chapters.

Wang's pet Xiao Kai does not have a delicate starting and closing pen like Wang Xianzhi and Zhao Mengfu's Xiao Kai. He seems to have hidden or simplified the threads of the brush strokes, the structure between the strokes seems to be broken, it seems to be non-connected, the strokes are extremely short, and even many strokes are simplified into points. It is precisely because of this that Wang Pet Xiaokai presents a sense of looseness on the whole, and the ethereal and sparse temperament in his works is also born.

Roundness and subtlety are also the primary characteristics of Wang's pet Xiaokai, who has inherited Zhong Taifu, Erwang, Zhiyong, Yu Shinan and other families, forming a pen style with a Jin people's charm, with thick pens and many centers.

He uses a round pen where he bends and turns, and the round circle is thick. Whether it is a diagonal hook or a vertical hook, the hook stroke is very subtle, and the strike is short and shallow. In some places, it seems that the hook is not hooked and round, revealing only a little trace of the edge, hidden but not exposed.

Although Wang Pet's calligraphy is slightly weaker than that of Wen and Zhu, it can be shown directly by "Fa Ti", such as his cursive writing can be cross-referenced with Wang Xizhi's "Seventeen Theses", and his Xiao Kai can be rewarded with King Zhong, so in terms of the rumors of the "right vein" of calligraphy, Wang Pet has its unique significance.

One of the characteristics of Wang Pet is that he can "write alive" the ancient, the characters have a place to come, and the characters are hidden in their own intentions, in this regard, Wang Pet has more reference significance for today's calligraphy learners.

Today's people often lament the "less taste" of today's book fair style, only the object of the teacher's law is seen in the exhibition, and the technique drowns the artistry and personality. How to understand the ancient and not muddy, and the harmony and difference of the world, wang pet's word is his understanding and answer, which is worth learning and tasting.