As the cultivation of the art of calligraphy and calligraphy as

 Bo Po from the network [
Dong Qichang
as the cultivation of calligraphy and the calligraphy as an art professor at Central Academy of Fine
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Hello everybody!
Because it is the first time for talks to Beijing Normal University , of course, a lot of things to say. calligraphy is a small professional, but it is a big topic, very large, wait a minute we will cover this issue, so in the end say, I and your teacher is in discussions Ni Wendong. He casually said to me, but I want to say too many things, there was always a subject of it, finally agreed to talk about such an introduction of. This idea of such an inside his mouth potential, Beijing Normal University where we are as The University offers a comprehensive professional calligraphy, and the Central Academy of Fine Arts where I was as calligraphy created a professional art school, what difference between these two types of school, what contact, in fact, doing calligraphy, this is our profession people talk about, but also thinking.
example, I have to make some art theory, art history, friends, the best, they have been trying to art history, comprehensive university of professional Bandao go, because the contemporary Art History has a tendency of his is the original art history research methods, in the last half-century or longer period of time, great changes have taken place.
Roughly speaking, if we look at the original art history and the History of Calligraphy, and that basically is to set out on some of the material, at most, plus a number of integrated, then it is a history of art. But now studies art history has been far beyond this scope. In fact, art history studies have History and other humanities disciplines with the occurrence of a very close relationship. history evolution in half a century I can not describe in detail here, this is not the scope of our discussions today, but it is very important, interested students can go a book The most important is the study of modern art history starting from the artistic phenomenon, involving a wide range of all the humanities, is not the original concept of the art history has become a very important area of humanities, he was able to put forward to solve other people can not introduce many problems can not be resolved.
study of the history of contemporary art has been greatly enriched our understanding of the arts and culture, all these are confined to reading Chinese art of calligraphy or painting or literature of these limitations, the narrow sense of art history or art theory literature of the people do not know. So the Art History Building to the comprehensive universities go, there is his deep academic background, has his theory. like my friend Norm King, the Cao Yiqiang , in fact, has been making such efforts, if anyone care about the study of Chinese art history, will certainly concerned about those Caoyi Jiang him, and he's a lot of work to do a good job. But according to Chinese custom, all of art history almost all the settings in the art of professional institutions, which brought a lot of limitations. because, for example, Art History teachers and students, he is very concerned about the various other related, or is never associated with the humanities have to look for ties disciplines, then you need information, background, academic exchanges, the support, if it is in the arts is more difficult to get these institutions in the comprehensive university will be a lot easier. This is a little off topic I said However, incomplete and irrelevant to the problem we have today about.
as calligraphy, then it, differ with art, because art history a long time, is already quite mature, there is a considerable historical period or a subject. like the establishment of professional art history of our country very long time, longer time to set up the West. But calligraphy professional expertise at the university to set up this very short history of 64 years, began to recruit two students, is in Zhejiang Fine Arts Institute, two undergraduate students recruited, and 65 strokes of the three years of it, about two years, five strokes, and this is the status of the profession before the Cultural Revolution. after the Cultural Revolution, the development of course, very fast, 1979, move the first batch of calligraphy Master, after a few years began to recruit undergraduate, after a doctoral, postdoctoral, this we all know, not me. But in general, as a professional, as the university offered a professional, he is still very short history, the construction of his subjects, teaching materials, teaching ideas, but also the study of specific topics are relatively weak. quite frankly, we do not have a sufficient for the calligraphy of professional teaching and research system Although we have been working hard, but it takes time. We also made a lot of achievements, but does not mean that the experience has been very mature. Therefore, in discussing this issue today, I think that makes sense why we mm Professional calligraphy set? I do not know, we thought about it did not. I read in 1979, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts graduate, from that time on, I find myself to be a calligraphy professional researchers, workers, or teachers, I we must think about this question. I engaged in this profession, the profession itself, then how about the situation, either as academic or as art, in the contemporary China, the contemporary state of the world is like. Here we begin to talk about our Today the topic.
why we will propose today as the cultivation of calligraphy and calligraphy as an art, in fact, due to environmental changes. today and calligraphy in traditional culture has been completely different situation, in the past, the function of his calligraphy His state, the composition of his talent, his creative approach, work presentation, evaluation methods, the way into art history, are different from today. The most significant change we can say:
first, writing tools we have today, not a brush, brush is no longer a tool of our daily writing, of course, as a professional, you can write with a brush all day long hold firmly without pens, typing without a computer firm, which also does not matter, it can, But this is only a few individuals, most people are unlikely to do so, the whole society is impossible, so the brush as a tool for everyday writing tools, quit our culture this is an ironclad fact. The effect is very very large. because in the original culture, we hand write every day, you think about the exhibition when it is with us to write a brush, or when it is to practice writing brush, the concept is completely different. Write in your hand every day, you would not have thought so much is written in good or bad written, in fact, it is a tool, who would write notes on each word to think about when will the structure of the word how to put, then you can take notes you simply can not keep up, and this routine, unconscious, free writing, writing that it lays a person's spiritual life with our relationship this integration, the only kinds of unintended, everyday, extensive, unconscious of this connection in order to ensure the fundamental nature of Chinese calligraphy, was his expressiveness. can he possibly put all sorts of things a person, to date, We also can not tell the complex relationships that can be reflected in the calligraphers. If he is not the case with us all day everyday, unconscious of the writing, then he will not be Chinese calligraphy like this, that is, change is a deadly tool change.
Second, cultural change. the first glance, we do not discuss, is not it? we need to say is that we look back, reflect on their childhood education received by , are exposed to visual images, reading the book, how much is a typical traditional culture, how many foreign culture, the number of blend together a variety of things, you think, so we accept education, knowledge structure, mentality and see the way feel the issues, all with the previous culture of people do not like, do you write will be the same, this is the second.
Third, we set up in the university professional calligraphy. Of course we will say we have this ancient profession, but in the past with today's professional expertise, his selection, education, training, employment, as well as the future way of living, are related not the same as before. that as a professional, before the Cultural Revolution , every city, there are few people who make a living by writing, writing signs, writing awards, writing books and so on, every city has, but with what we today call the professional requirements of calligraphy can be said that almost no Like, if the request from the people is simply not the same. In the past that our society has retained a small number of professional workers, in fact, is basically a craftsman. the liberation of the previous situation is somewhat different, some well-known scholars, or artists his living by painting or calligraphy, that the situation in China with the Cultural Revolution, not the same as before. Now, then, all of you who are professional calligraphy, students, teachers, workers, the commitment to a culture of responsibility, your learning The closer to that goal and your cultural ideal, as are related to previously. But I met many, many, I taught for two years in Japan, the book, contact with a lot of Japanese teachers and students, including teachers and students in Korea, they are very stressed as the training side of calligraphy. In modern society, Korea, and more developed countries like Japan, calligraphy as their professional choice, saying the truth, but very special group of people, very special. One is the traditional harbor special feeling, one is China really had a special feeling. they will be stressed as the training side of calligraphy. This is part of the people. another country we always have, and there are some friends for calligraphy, we talk together , will talk about culture, calligraphy is an important accomplishment, how we used to how the culture developed, today we have gradually lost him. We train some students to do this profession, I hope he can recover, or maintain the culture Some of the things. However, I think, in our universities today, professional calligraphy set, just to let everyone get a certain accomplishment of calligraphy as a target, I think this is not enough. Let us talk about the cultivation of calligraphy as some of the features.
First, he relies on everyday writing, we have said before, he can now have all the people in the long run, the better together, it is very important to Chinese calligraphy point. other people have calligraphy, fine arts, but they are words, and why? he is based on the decorative, and daily writing Chinese calligraphy, which is two very different basis. have written a variety of daily changes in personality , only the kind of natural, unknowingly mix and revealed, and decorative it, he must have a goal, had his learning process, have a style, a genre, the calligraphy in the form to us very the same. the most important reason, remember, today I can not detail.
calligraphy he gradually became a human to help people realize their ideal of a means. We recall the concept of society, such as the person Poor handwriting, and that this person can not, hand write such foul words, if the person to write a good word, you are completely different impression of him, this is the concept of society in general. but we are carefully looking through the ancient literature, and some discussion, we will find calligraphy because he has to adhere to his daily writing, meaning that he should adhere to such a person can participate in all activities to this article, I mm article called personality, to realize their ideal means of some humanities. how do you say, for example, a person, from your word that you see a bad accomplishment, you think this thing is very bad, very bad, forcing people, you want to improve your training, your character will be good, take note of this there are a very interesting question, is training with the words in the end what people contact. We can now discuss the actual contact, I article discussed, but today we talk about the concept of social formation, we consider it to contact, he does have contact, so people how to do it, no way, only their own to improve their training, reading, thinking, follow the sage of warning to those , and then try to do, to his commissioning as a traditional cultural ideals meet people, and that cultivation of good, and when your words will naturally not the same, as to how to run this set of mechanisms, we also need to discussed in detail.
today we do not say in detail. I'm just a technical manual method his side, along with the main emphasis on a more personal side of training. even personal accomplishment and we will grade the word , the level of words linked, like book, which is very, very important concept is clear, like book, the book is the same with people, that the person you think you should not fight as much as possible in the traditional the culture level reached as high as possible, which with the teacher or parent at home to force the command you how to do is not the same. the whole community of people say the word style so high, it is natural you are in a state where you want to I thought, how the role of this kind of culture is very important, very important. Of course, he told us the warning of Confucius and Mencius, creed that is different, he and art, with the United States, with your pleasure, with the are all written in your daily contact with, this is what you think about the power of penetration! it with you sat respectfully accept the lessons of that effect, that concept is completely different, completely different nature. So calligraphy In the traditional culture of the humanities to help people to realize his ideals, his role, in fact, we can not understand today, is extremely important.
as the cultivation of calligraphy, and the second, he, after all, contains a technical level , but his improvements in technology, there are several very interesting features. For example, the first, we were young to go to school, class fifty people, twenty or private school in more than a dozen individuals, all in accordance with the teacher tells you to write method write, and the teacher's way is the prevailing method of this era, in fact, we rely on the teaching of this master himself (writing method), the time from the beginning literacy will be calligraphy, the teacher tells you the most basic requirements slowly slowly, all the training methods, ranging from the basic copybook all, we are not all primary schools in writing that in addition of Yan Liu body do all the same, to maintain the kind of hard to explain a social The close cultural links on the psychological. some of them stand out, for example, a well-known today, such and such a calligrapher, but others do the computer, or do all sorts of other social work, with no calligraphy relationship is not, but they are suddenly interested in calligraphy will retire. Why, his early writing, the most famous calligrapher of the same table with him, in a table and started practicing calligraphy, calligraphy, why do we have such a strong broad social base, this psychological contact is extremely important, there is no any kind of art can the members of a society are so friendly in general, and his soul was linked, in addition to calligraphy, not the second. In this case, the kind of technology is how to grasp the high level of it, not like modern art, in art institutions for drawing, color, and then for the shape, then slowly adjust an artist, no, he Writing in the daily gradually evolved, so it comes to the concept of the traditional calligraphy styles people would say, it is naturally formed to create an emphasis on modern art, innovative ideas you told him anxious, but not anxious, he is very reasonable, the traditional evolution is indeed slow, infiltration, is really so.
When a man slowly evolved since their writing mode is difficult to form the pattern mm, and to many mm after the formation of his very stable, such as a person to write a couplet, probably like this, write letters, almost, at least there are quite a common thing, copy a screen, that he is basically a model, a large number close to his own, there are fun, small changes in the state, but it is a big range, this thing is long term and develop slowly in the unconscious. Please note that the unconscious, or subconscious in the form of a kinds of writing (face), and your personality, accomplishments, your energy, your education, and slowly infiltrate into it all went, he was such a complex synthesis. and contemporary art is not the case. But I hope that we as a professional person of calligraphy, both concerned with the formation of patterns in the past, but also concerned about the creation of art today, his talent, the way the development of pattern formation. formation model, he's changing and very difficult. form a very difficult time , after the formation of very stable, and stability can be created when a large number of similar works, you make him very difficult to change, it is contrived, the whole pattern to change, unless it is very slow, and in five or ten years two decades to change, you to be very sudden change he can not. This resulted in a situation of such a calligrapher you want him to do a modern exhibition, I am afraid not look good. his style all similar. and now to do art, each one had to have change, very different changes. that you have of your skills, your creative approach, require very, very strict. That which I have not been evaluated, I just described.
Now we talk about As the art of calligraphy, how it was all about.
First, we say the composition of modern art, right? and our Academy of Fine Arts about the same. we have today with the ; words, but talking about the six arts, including mathematics also inside, so you think this is certainly not the same, they have overlapping, but not exactly the same. was generated, is the impact of the Western way of education to China after we set up in school art classes, music lessons, and finally set up a College of Music, Fine Arts, right? This is basically since the twentieth century in China things. Now we have to ask is, today's , that can be said of today's we say as a professional learning officer, you must concentrate time and effort, and then learn some basic techniques, and you most of the energy is on the top. and then we also improve the cultivation, study art history Finally, it slowly develop your imagination. such a person to do sculpture, you are trying very hard to imagine how many people make a sculpture of the way, first of all to learn the existing foundation, and then to imagine how many kinds of situations, you're that person's highest goal is your creative style of this sculpture to enter the entire history of art, this is your most important mission. If we change the perspective of a Chinese sculptor to do what he does, he use the best (work) to China's sculpture to a new stage, China should contribute not the original sculpture, the best sculpture of the world does not have the kind of style, ideas and works. But in the past we have this calligraphy target you, so training is for you, absolutely not.
you want a person unconsciously every day there for the sculpture, sculpture every day, and for what? life and sculpture not related. they simply could not find him can be compared with the calligraphy place. So said Zhao Zhijian, ancient and modern calligraphy are the two most powerful persons, the very small children, innocent and naive, the other one is the product of good science enlightenment, cultivation has a very profound man. from his this comment Chinese calligraphy which can imagine what mm high standards of superb character, virtue, feeling, mood, and innocent of technology and performance. if very briefly to say about it is. in the end how to evaluate a work, say the truth, Today we talk about the history of calligraphy, Wang Duo talk about, or create something and Dong Qichang, then I am afraid that is not the case evaluation. The key is to look at your work inside the reaction of Dong Qichang mm out what kind of personality, the image of what kind of person, status Wang Duo reaction out of what is. but we did not expect today's professional calligraphy. We start with literature it. If we calligraphy professional and professional development literature of classical literature, or a cultivation of Chinese calligraphy, very nice people, very will feel , according to the kind of style to the original writing, the kind of person, you think about it, the profession can not do, no. Department of Chinese culture, Chinese language education for teachers or teaching literature, or a combination of academic study of literature and language scholars, of course, it will do a handful of people writing, that is a great need for social sectors, but mainly journalists and researchers, writing, calligraphy and the same reason. If only the training of professional calligraphy calligraphy training very good, very good feelings of calligraphy, you say that this person how useful to society. Of course we can say that this is continuation of the old tradition, there is no such society, we train such people, put up the yellow thing in society, which I am afraid that is not the mission of universities.
Now we look at the relationship between the two. First, there is no doubt an idea, as a deep understanding and feeling that the traditional meaning of the calligraphy, with us today to him as the art of calligraphy as an academic to be treated, it is a relationship between. The first point is to tradition, the real field experience to have to enter a premise. it is not objective, is the premise and in-depth insights calligraphy, came to realize that the traditional Calligraphy of the state, level and works, and his the kind of thing, that is a prerequisite, as the premise of today's professional calligraphy. Second, we can do, I think we can make two points. First, for academic research. This research is not our general (research), says the truth, not the not set and can not. This is an academic how to do, confronting the past calligraphy, traditional Chinese calligraphy is the phenomenon of the whole, or in the face of today's cultural phenomena, calligraphy phenomenon, we carried out academic discussions in the modern sense .
I said earlier, I briefly mentioned the beginning, today the state of history, art history of the state today. Of course we can also write our original method of calligraphy, calligraphy published our article, write our dissertations, you still can, in today's state of calligraphy, certainly you can pass, and it certainly can be made, might even winning, but also when the academic committee may, but I can say that the vast What part of no academic value. here is what comes to the contemporary academic issues. our school I was an academic seminar for two weeks for once, his discussion of the art research in the whole of China in the world humanities What is the basis of his , What is the relationship to study the state of the humanities in China, we must think about the whole issue then, through time to find our how to make that topic to be. If we study this subject condensing Yang, Yang in front of condensing the material is copy copy, through the later summed up two three four five, and then paper over, finished. we do have nine half-ten is the case, this article is not the contemporary academic. What is the contemporary academic, which is to be specifically talking about. We prepared about ten topics, and now had two, the first second we discuss the issue very expression of the artist's inspiration. next week to discuss the inspiration of art and expression of the researchers, there is thinking the following, language translation, and that numerous problems. These problems are not thinking thoroughly, we think for themselves a very specific relationship between the cup and water when it is certainly out there in the previous mode of thinking, there can be no academic value.
said here, for us to study calligraphy in contemporary scholarly What are the prospects, the outlook is very impressive. This happens for a reason, for example, we now introduce the academic history of the West, very much, right, a new discipline, etc. This presentation is well done, there are many publications, but the key is that we have to be elected, is another matter. then the real progress of China's academic performance is certainly in how we want to solve China's phenomenon, the phenomenon of the face of China, the performance characteristics of China, is not. you are certainly not the history of Western painting to solve an individual date of birth, or something, I am afraid that something useful there, but I am afraid that is not our main task of the researchers in China, our China research are probably not primarily to solve this problem. In essence, the real challenge we face is how the task should be explained the phenomenon in China, and Chinese calligraphy is a very typical phenomenon. said he was important because he was with China deep place of language, the meaning of calligraphy to accumulate, evolution, and his images form the image system, the extreme particularity, how can the world do? there for this kind of creation to special requirements, he the growth process of the significance of calligraphy in the interpretation of his time to a variety of ways and a variety of acceptable process, have shown a typical Chinese characteristics, especially his relationship with the language. even includes calligraphy theory phenomena, so that the whole phenomenon of Chinese calligraphy into an image the Chinese language, philosophy, philosophy, literary theory, aesthetics, and so hard to blend together and split a group, you mess Ye Hao, treasures are good. No matter. The modern academic will have to face him, and explained, break him, which demolished an explanation from the Chinese art, Chinese thinking, deep understanding of Chinese culture. Who can do this, who is our China academia really good people, ideology and culture of China to promote the academic people.
, of course, not only for calligraphy, Chinese philosophy, Chinese poetry, Chinese medicine, and so are all the same. In place of these phenomena here in China time, calligraphy is undoubtedly a very important part is very important. This is what tells us that modern thinking on the calligraphy is has a brilliant academic future. I have said in the article, this area should produce one or two super-class scholars, a group of first-class second-rate scholars. because this area is too important, we are familiar with the history of Western academic all know, early twentieth century, his linguistics is a leading academic, led the development of many disciplines, China Linguistics definitely not achieve this effect, when we want to solve a problem, to find materials in Chinese linguistics, I find that the material can find anything, and I can feel instinctively, calligraphy areas may become a very important subject, because what I said earlier, these. He is integrated so many important things. Of course, the real value of modern research is not easy to do, but that is another issue. that I said that he artistic side.
to modern art made a century, we all feel a little dead end, imagination, like a little dried up. not to say that no good works now, but tell the truth, a great imagination to see this work, will be able to give us a shock, so that very little work. We are eager to create an active imagination to look around the fulcrum. please note that not, these ideas probably have a bit of air holding. in the absolute vacuum that day the Club will not fall off it, we do not know. imagine that he still needed a place to stand. there is a fulcrum, Wow, you can imagine, but also to find a fulcrum, Wow, and an imagination. If the pivot did not, you stay right on the ground. We look at Picasso, and Matisse, Picasso, in particular, we see that the picture he painted a triangle of a square, a bar, a block, then the mess, which like the people that which, is not it, but he must paint at people. This is very interesting. there must be a person sitting across from him, he painted, painted things that did not look like people. Why, he must have fulcrum, and perhaps the flower on his body, or the splash of the color of the body model, an inspiration to him, there is a large black triangle, or something, must be so. So calligraphy, his very rich and the spatial variation of the invisible line between the changes can be endless inspiration to modern art, which is visual.
then we calligraphy from this concept, we just simply speaking of these many, they can already see that he, like many areas of the field with the so-called modern art is entirely different. His ideas on the graph, you can give people very, very big inspiration, imagination can become an important fulcrum of the new . This means that we have the traditional Chinese calligraphy from the in-depth (perspective), we have two prospects for the future in depth, the first point, you can then create a traditional style of Chinese calligraphy, the history of traditional Chinese calligraphy and then writing. as our time The Yu Yu-jen, Lin San, Lu Zhao-dimensional, they have no doubt that certainly in the entire history of Chinese calligraphy, left his fame, which is not in doubt. to leave their great work, certainly in their history is also for this to continue forever. although very difficult, people can enter the history is not easy, but there is hope, towards the people walk on this road there is still hope, some people will continue to go in, this is a way. s Second, is to calligraphy as a fulcrum, we went to expand our imagination, the use of his resources, to make truly wonderful works of modern art, art history into the world. This is what I have to say the two prospects.
are there is hope, we as people can be considered a professional calligraphy. You can also go the third way, such as calligraphy as a subject to write fiction, write a very exciting, but you will be an author, and enter the world history of literature, it is another matter. Now, let's start some imagination in the classroom, to speak as a fulcrum in front of us, let us imagine, if we are on the calligraphy for the more daring ideas, we can make some of this based on what. such as that starting from calligraphy, we can make a contribution at different levels.
we start with the academic, for example, do you research the history of good calligraphy, or writing your traditional calligraphy for good, you are contribution of the history of Chinese calligraphy, this is your contribution to this level in the history of Chinese calligraphy. If you work on the Chinese art (no matter what your work), have to promote, or others are inspired from you , frankly is not much now, as the bulk of the forest so well written, you see what he was painting industry influence on the impact of cultural, let alone the whole, we do think of him as ideal. Suppose They contribute to Chinese art history, impact, then he would go directly to art history. assumed to Chinese calligraphy as a resource, we made some new works, those works is clearly evolved from calligraphy, but we saw Oh, this is the ...