Mr. Bai Zhen, a professor at the China Academy of Art, recently published an article saying: For a long time, people have been recognized as beautiful books for Wang Xizhi's calligraphy, but they have vigorously rejected some so-called ugly books, and the fundamental reason is the lack of understanding of ugly books. Because ugly books have primitive, simple, raw, astringent, old, spicy, cang and other artistic characteristics, in the aesthetic time, ugly books are often more complex and profound, people in the so-called these ugly books, it is precisely lack of this ability, so it is reasonable to reject ugly books. Fortunately, however, many people have accepted ugly books at the moment.
As soon as Bai Ling's "ugly book theory" was published, it immediately aroused the heated discussion of the majority of book lovers, and some book friends said that this statement was obviously to open the way for ugly books, as a calligraphy professor, there is a certain right to speak, which is a challenge to traditional calligraphy. Some book lovers think that who accepts ugly books at the moment? Isn't this a kind of thought kidnapping? Some book lovers believe that you, the so-called calligraphy professors and calligraphy experts, occupy a position in the book world and make a big fuss, is this not a deviation from the direction of Chinese calligraphy?
Bai Li is a professor of calligraphy at the China Academy of Art, a doctoral supervisor, a member of the Academic Committee of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, and his calligraphy works have participated in many national calligraphy exhibitions and held more than 20 personal calligraphy exhibitions. Bai Li believes that calligraphy can not only stay on the writing of good looks, beautiful, but to write natural, simple beauty, calligraphy carries the Chinese of nature, life of the deep understanding and understanding, is a "Tao" art.
"Ugly book" is a kind of calligraphy work popular in the book world in recent years, its general idea is anti-traditional, ugly as a beautiful art form, some calligraphy masters in the contemporary book world especially like to write ugly books, ugly and beautiful is a pair of contradictory relationships, people tend to accept beautiful things, and reject ugly things. As far as calligraphy is concerned, meishu refers to the calligraphy represented by Wang Xizhi, which is also a classic calligraphy work recognized by people for thousands of years, while ugly books are the opposite, that is, the glyphs are written in a simple or even ugly manner, and this kind of calligraphy is mostly rejected by people.
At present, Shen Peng is considered to be the originator of ugly books, and the view of calligraphy he advocates "how to write is how to write" completely deviates from the traditional calligraphy to take root in the ancients and copy the learning ideas of the ancients, because of this view, most of the calligraphy masters on the current book world have written ugly books, and even ugly books have been revealed in the calligraphy exhibition. For example, recognized ugly book masters include: Wo Xinghua, Bai Zhen, Zhang Xuguang, Liu Hongbiao, Wang Dongling, Zeng Xiang and others, who have expressed ugly books in various forms, such as mop books, needle books, closed eyes books, and chaotic books.
Bai Ling's article believes that because ugly books are not like beautiful books, you can see where the beauty is at a glance, but there is a more complex and profound artistry in the ugly books, so people find it difficult to appreciate, and it is precisely like this that the ugly books are the main form of artistic expression of calligraphy. In addition, Bai Ling's article also said that beautiful books and ugly books can also be converted into each other, and works with ugly appearances are not necessarily beautiful, on the contrary, beautiful and good-looking things are not necessarily the most beautiful.
What is the meaning of ugly books? How does it behave? This question needs to start from the essence of calligraphy, which is also the problem that Chinese culture wants to express. We can see from the only words left by Wang Xizhi that he once said: "The meaning of the book has become deeper, and the meaning of the dot painting is intentional." There is no end to what you say. Whoever gets it, everything is the same. "Zi Jingfei Bai is very intentional." What he meant was that every painting written meant something that language could not express. The ancients pursued the kind of fun between dot paintings, such as the flying white in Wang Xianzhi's strokes, which is very interesting. This was a pursuit of the spiritual aspect of the writing of Chinese characters at that time, which was evident from the difference in size and the diagonality.
The basic connotation of Chinese culture is the contradictory, antagonistic and unified thought, calligraphy as the essence of Chinese culture, in the writing performance, in the composition of dot painting, glyphs, must reflect the philosophical thought of culture. Contradictory relations are after contradictory things, and then there is a unified relationship. As far as calligraphy is concerned, dot painting has thickness, size of the word, positive slope, square circle, etc., which must be expressed in a contradictory relationship. As far as the overall chapter is concerned, it has priorities, priorities, spatial density, and so on, but no matter what contradictory relationship is used, it is ultimately necessary to achieve the goal of harmony and unity.
Some calligraphy experts believe that calligraphy wants to show the above relationship, and only ugly books can show it. When people write ugly books, it is easy to express the size, density, square circle, black and white, as Bai Zhen said, the complexity and profundity contained in the ugly books are contrary to people's understanding of the beauty of traditional calligraphy, it is actually the simplest way of expression, but people's ideological understanding has not reached such a height.
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