What schools of calligraphy are there?

The schools of China's calligraphy can be roughly divided into:

1, traditional school

This school of calligraphy takes the traditional classic inscriptions as the supreme position, and the tradition of learning from others spares no effort to sneer at everything in the wild fox Zen, which contradicts the non-traditional art form!

2. Modernism

Generally speaking, this row has a certain foundation of traditional calligraphy, advocating visual effects, while ignoring the characteristics of calligraphy such as style, composition, pen and ink. A great feature is to write calligraphy with the brushwork of painting, highlighting the sense of space of lines and the visual impact of heavy colors!

3. Postmodernism

The characteristic of postmodern calligraphy is that it has no foundation of traditional calligraphy. Instead, it subverts the combination of pure western behavioral art and aesthetic art elements, resulting in a pseudo-avant-garde, pseudo-art that runs counter to calligraphy itself.

4. Popular book style

This style is characterized by a new approach based on the traditional mainstream calligraphy, which often conflicts with the mainstream calligraphy of the "two kings". These people are pursuing unknown steles, Oracle bones, bamboo slips, folk epitaphs and other rare things to mix their own creations, which is different from mainstream calligraphy.

5. Neoclassicism

This calligraphy style is characterized by reconstructing the core of traditional calligraphy, weakening the technical factors of the work itself, and re-injecting new humanistic feelings into the work, thus reinterpreting the classics under the background of the times!

6. Cultural calligraphy

Compared with the above forces, this kind of calligraphy is quite inferior. It is characterized by "integrity and innovation", which makes a breakthrough and innovation on the basis of tradition and embodies the writing spirit.

There are more than these schools of calligraphy, including literati calligraphy, veteran cadre calligraphy, fingering calligraphy, calligraphy in calligraphy and so on.

Extended material calligraphy is divided into North School and South School.

Ruan Yuan, a famous calligrapher in Qing Dynasty, first put forward the viewpoint that "there are north and south schools of calligraphy" in his calligraphy paper. The specific division arrangement is as follows: "Zhengshu and Caoshu are divided into south and north, Eastern Jin, Song, Qi, Liang and Chen Weinan, and Zhao, Yan, Wei, Qi, Zhou and Sui are north."

As far as the inheritance of calligraphy is concerned, Zhong You

He is a calligrapher in the north and south. From the south, after the two kings, there are Zhiyong and Yu Shinan, and the northern faction is.

After Suo Jing and Cui Yue, Ou Yangxun and Chu Suiliang appeared. The two factions have different styles and characteristics, which Ruan Yuan summarized.

It is concluded that "Southern School is a romantic trend on the left bank of the Yangtze River, which is beautiful and elegant, longer than the opening, and the pen belongs to the unknown".

"Northern School is the ancient Central Plains.

Method, stiff and clumsy, is longer than the list of monuments. "He compared the advantages and disadvantages of the two schools, making the boundaries between the two schools clear and easy for people to appreciate and understand.

Ruan Yuan also discusses the rise and fall of Guan Yu's northern and southern factions in his book. At the end of Sui Dynasty and the beginning of Tang Dynasty, I sent letters to the North.

After the Central Plains Reform, learners still existed, but in the Tang Dynasty, due to Emperor Taizong's strong admiration for Wang Xizhi, Nanshe calligraphy developed greatly. Although the southern school has developed rapidly, most of them are calligraphy and painting, and they are learned.

People are still mostly from the north.

In the Song Dynasty, with the development of history, pavilion posts became popular, and people no longer paid attention to the study of inscriptions, so northern calligraphy began to decline. Ruan Yuan himself is more inclined to the inscription calligraphy of the Northern School than that of the Northern School. He has been paying attention to this matter for many years.

All kinds of inscriptions have their footprints all over the country.

But later, because there were more inscriptions by the northern school, he was more detailed.

Looking at it from the heart, but learning from it, he advocated the North Monument. In his explanation, "Most calligraphers in Yuan and Ming Dynasties were trapped by Ge Tie. Wouldn't it be ugly if calligraphy was out of order?" It can be seen that his pursuit of innovation and breakthrough, in a sense, has played a huge role in promoting the formation of the later monument-respecting atmosphere.

reference data

Baidu encyclopedia-calligraphy genre