| Liu Xizai is a famous calligraphy theorist in the late Qing Dynasty.“Calligraphy Summary” is the fifth part of its “Art Summary”.“Art Summary” has six parts,namely,literature,poetry,Fu,Lyrics,calligraphy and eight-part articles.“Calligraphy Summary” is a discussion of all aspects of calligraphy art.It is also a summary and development of Chinese classical book theory.The author mainly makes an entry point from the aspects of aesthetic ideals,aesthetic taste and value,and analyzes the aesthetics of calligraphy art in Liu Xizai’s “Calligraphy Summary”First of all,simple review of Liu Xizai’s life,thoughts and texts in order to better grasp the ideological content of the article.The origin of a person’s aesthetic point of view must be influenced by his life practice and thought.Liu Xizai combines the thoughts of Confucianism,Taoism and Buddhism,among which Confucianism is the mainstay,supplemented by Taoism and Buddhism.Secondly,Explain the main calligraphy art thoughts in the Calligraphy Summary: For the five books,the Regular script,Cursive script,Official script,and Seal script,for the first time,Liu Xizai divided the book into five types according to the proportion of the movement and the static in the book,Running hand and Cursive are dynamic books,Regular script,Seal character and Official script belong to the static book;" The book is about nature" is the creative method advocated Liu Xizai;Liu Xizai uses the neutralization as a standard for calligraphy,and use a series of yin and yang structures to discuss them.The relationship between rigid and soft,dynamic and other categories is mutually restrained and infiltrated.Once again,Looking at Liu Xizai’s Calligraphic Aesthetic thoughts from the perspective of aesthetic ideals,one is to admire nature,emphasis is placed on the nature of calligraphy art before and after the creation.Before you create,you must first observe the natural things and get inspiration from them.In the process of creation,both form of calligraphy art and emotion of the writer should also reflect nature and oppose deliberate modification;The second is that the rhyme is high,advocating the writer must have a profound artistic accomplishment and spiritual temperament,and to feel the profound charm and artistic conception in the works;The third is flawless tastes escape gas pursue a free and easy,free from the realm of ritual law.Then,from a more subtle aspect of aesthetic taste,aesthetic taste is the subjective hobby and inclination of the aesthetic subject,and is influenced by the aesthetic ideal.Advocating natural performance as great wisdom appears stupid,That is,the tendency to the simple and natural nature of calligraphy art;The rhyme is high expressed as backbone,tend to the art of calligraphy with a strong pen,momentum and spirit;flawless tastes escape gas is specifically studying ancient and ancient methods,reflecting the relationship between interest and law,if you want to pursue free and easy and freedom from the secular constraints,you must learn the interest and laws of the ancients.Finally,in terms of value,the first is a unique understanding of the art of calligraphy,Liu Xizai,in the case of the era when the North and South Schools fell one-sidedly,Liu Xizai’s objective and fair attitude,it is believed that the North and South Schools have their own strengths,only the differences in style,and there is no difference in status;There is also a comprehensive understanding of the book body intercommunication,the relationship between the new and old books is interoperable,the new book body is developed on the basis of the old book body,and retains the essence of the old book body;From the dialectical point of view,the book style of the scholars of the past dynasties has been discriminated.The book’s book style has major and minor aspects,and the two sides are opposite to each other;It also makes a definitive explanation of a classic proposition "Book as its own person",such as the scholar’s knowledge,talent,interest and insight.The second part discusses the theoretical value and practical significance of the aesthetics of calligraphy art.Of course,some ideas lack new insights,but they do not hide their shadows.They have certain practical guiding significance for the development,construction and practice of calligraphy theory at later generations.Inherit and develop the outstanding Chinese traditional culture. |