Back to traditional possibilities 丨 was said by "Inner Books and Outside of the Books -Shen Peng Calligraphy Nineteen Lectures"

After a long period of "anti -tradition" noise, hustle and bustle, we started to truly realize that the tradition of calligraphy is inseparable, and the traditional calligraphy creation is destined to have no vitality at all. However, when we realized all this, we also found out that the calligraphy is actually drifting away from the tradition at present, and the cracks that are difficult to subdue between the two have been rampant, and returning is just looking forward.

Why is it here?

In summary, there are two reasons. On the one hand, the transformation of traditional social culture in modern times has caused calligraphy to lose the foundation and environment of survival, and mutation is inevitable; on the other hand, calligraphy in the new social and cultural context is eager to change and change changes. Too much referring to the modern art and art of the West, from a "skill" from as a heart of nourishment and life to the "visual art" in the modern sense of Western. No matter what kind of reason, the current calligraphy is in a very embarrassing situation. In the face of traditional no way to return, facing Western desire self -reliance.

So, where is the current calligraphy? It should be said that the possibility of re -returning to tradition and seeking the current existence and growth on the basis of re -entering the tradition, in order to return and seek forgenside, is a wise move.

The problem is that it has been far away for a long time. Traditional images have begun to blur. Is it possible to return? Even if possible, how can I return? Furthermore, if it is not possible to return, why is it aggressive? If these questions are not made in proper answers, calligraphy is destined to get rid of its embarrassing situation. In this sense, most of the thinking and discussion of calligraphy at the moment are mostly on these issues. Of course, it also includes Mr. Shen Peng's "Inner Books and Outside of Shen Peng Calligraphy Nineteen Lectures". This is the concentration of concentration of Shen Pengshu's ideas and creative experience. The value is that it is quite inspiring to answer the questions we raised above.

▲ Shen Peng calligraphy

Regarding how to return tradition and how to make progress on the basis of returning, Shen Peng emphasized the following points in this book:

First, reconstruct the relationship between calligraphy and self.

On the creation, discussing copying, and teaching, Shen Peng has always emphasized the importance of respecting personality and emphasis on book painting. Because in Shen Peng's view, calligraphy is not just a kind of "art", but also a true feelings of real life behavior and experience. What kind of life and style of the creator has the realm of life and style Essence In this sense, it can be said that the book is like its "personality" and "heart". Throughout the classic masterpiece of calligraphy history, it is true that it really shows the creator Gao Jie's personality and super -detached mind. In modern times, the modern art of western modern art is used as a "art" calligraphy, but to split calligraphy and creators The "self", "personality", and "mind" are the cost. As a "art" calligraphy, it emphasizes vision and forgotten is the mind, so it is far from the tradition of calligraphy, and even moves towards "non -calligraphy". The reason why some creators who are pursuing "modern aesthetics" and some "modern calligraphy" creators will eventually sigh and go. The main reason is that their writing is nothing to do with their people and have nothing to do with their minds. That is to say, one of the keys to activating the vitality of the current calligraphy is how to re -establish the internal connection of writing and self.

Second, reconstruct the relationship between calligraphy and life.

As a calligrapher, Shen Peng, also a poet, is diligent in chanting, growing in chanting, and poetry chanting has played a promotion role that cannot be ignored for the formation and maturity of his calligraphy style. His poems are the soul of his book. Moreover, Shen Peng has also emphasized the importance of poetry to calligraphy more than once in "Books and Books". Poetry is not one of many literary genre, but a life attitude and way of life. In short, poetry is a vulgar, cramped, and trivial real life superposting and saving, intended to create a transcendent poetic space for us. In the traditional literati art, calligraphy and poetry marriage have made calligraphy to the greatest extent to overcome their inherent practicality and participate in the construction of poetic and aesthetic living spaces in the spiritual realm of people. Because of this, calligraphy has received enough attention in the history of Chinese culture. Conversely, calligraphy that has nothing to do with poetry is just a practical tool or skill. Because of the reason, paying attention to poetry creation, focusing on poetry's important role in calligraphy creation, has become one of the important calligraphy ideas of Shen Peng. The original intention is to emphasize the important connection between calligraphy to reconstruct calligraphy with aesthetic life and life aesthetics, and avoid calligraphy as a decoration or embellishment of life. However, a lot of calligraphy creation at the moment is nothing more than dispensable decoration or embellishment.

Third, reconstruct the relationship between calligraphy and "unlimited".

We see that Shen Peng, a humanist, pays more attention to Hawking as a physicist. He not only gives poems on the title, but also shows his respect in the words. The reason why Shen Peng pays attention and admires Hawking is that Hawking has a long -lasting enthusiasm for exploring infinite universe, and has a role in promoting in the process of human exploration of infinite universe. In other words, Mr. Shen Peng saw in Hawking as a researcher or individual person, and the attitude of infinite things or "infinite" itself. And we know whether to pay attention to "unlimited" and whether you have the ability to ask "unlimited", is to measure whether all knowledge and all art can be used to the extreme. Therefore, when Shen Peng talked about Hawking, he actually wanted to tell us that the ambitious calligrapher should be committed to asking "unlimited" and exploring "unlimited", "in the book and outside the book", and the Tao is " Infinite "outside the book", or "Infinite", really determines the character of calligraphy creation. Shen Peng likes to quote Sun Guoting's sentence, "Emotional words, the meaning of being coquettish; Yang Shuyin is miserable, it is the heart of heaven and earth." The inherent tradition. Unfortunately, this tradition is not fully known to be unveiled at the moment. "Inner Books and Outside of the Book -Shen Peng Calligraphy Nineteenth Lecture" is compiled by Shen Peng's lecture records, and it is said that it is a word of words, although it is a talkative.

July 31, 2022 "China Culture News"

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