The Vertical Picture Type And The Formal Expression Of Ming Middle-late Calligraphy

The vertical picture type is the most important form of the calligraphy and painting. Ming middle-late calligraphy had changed greatly,as the vertical picture type popular after the mid-ming dynasty. For calligraphy form attention and excavation exceed any time before in this period. This article thinks that the popular of thevertical picture type had affected calligraphy creation and appreciation ways, especially calligraphy forms of expression.This article investigates the origin and development of the vertical picture type detailedly and argumented the contributing factor,which caused the popular of the vertical picture type.lt is the form of special for all to see in the wall hung,which caused appreciation ways change, means that it is from overlooking turns into looking up,from intensive reading changes into broadly browsing,from close enjoying transformes into remote viewing,from locality turns into entirety.As appreciation ways change, which caused comment on calligraphy form comprehensive factors study that include calligraphy ontology and calligrapher's moral, cultivation, temperament, natural instincts and so on,transformed into with calligraphy for formal beauty center.So previous calligraphy allotted the burden of art outside had been reduced. Relatively the art of calligraphy ontology formal beauty got a certain degree of liberation. Calligraphy gets more and more toward its artistic form to move forward. This paper argues that the vertical picture type to the formal expression of Ming middle-late calligraphy influence mainly displays in, strengthening the overall visual effect, with visual aesthetic as the core, break through and aesthetic paradigm, prominent vertical line expression and the stability of the form etc.And detailed discusses the characteristics of Ming middle-late calligraphy form under the influence of the vertical picture type.