Calligraphy is divided into which schools

Chinese calligraphy is broadly divided into the following schools:

1, the traditional school

This school of calligraphy will be the traditional classic tablets and posters as the supreme position, the master of the tradition, sparing no effort, the Wild Fox Zen scoff at all the things that are against the non-traditional forms of art!

2, the modern school

This row will be said to have a certain foundation of traditional calligraphy, advocating the visual effect and ignoring the calligraphy of the line of gas, chapter and ink and other characteristics. A big feature is to write calligraphy with the brushwork of painting, highlighting the spatial feeling of the line and the visual impact of heavy ink and color!

3, post-modernist

Post-modernist calligraphy is characterized by the basis of traditional calligraphy without the slightest, instead of purely Western behavioral art, the subversive fusion of elements of aesthetic art, resulting in the effect of pseudo avant-garde, pseudo-art in contrast to the body of calligraphy.

4, popular style

This style is characterized by the traditional mainstream calligraphy on the basis of a different way to the "two kings" all the way to the mainstream calligraphy more than resistance, this kind of people are pursued by the name of the tablet plate, oracle bone, simple documents, as well as folk tombstones, such as rarely seen things to mix their own creations, thus alternative to the mainstream of calligraphy. This is a different kind of book from the mainstream.

5, neo-classicism

This type of book style is characterized by the reconstruction of the core of traditional calligraphy, weakening the technical factors of the work itself, and re-injected into the work of a new humanistic feelings, so as to re-articulate the classics in the context of the times!

6, cultural calligraphy

This type of calligraphy is less than the above forces, this type of calligraphy is characterized by "keeping the right and new", on the basis of the traditional breakthrough innovation, embodied in the classics, writing spirit.

Schools of calligraphy are more than just a few, and there are literati calligraphy, old cadres calligraphy, finger book, hand book and so on the jianghu road without comment.

Calligraphy North and South

Ruan Yuan, a famous calligrapher of the Qing Dynasty, was the first to put forward the idea of "Calligraphy North and South" in his thesis of "North and South School of Calligraphy". He arranged the division in this way: "For the division of formal calligraphy and cursive into southern and northern schools, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Qi Dynasty, Liang Dynasty, and Chen Dynasty are the southern schools, and Zhao Dynasty, Yan Dynasty, Wei Dynasty, Qi Dynasty, Zhou Dynasty, and Sui Dynasty are the northern schools."

From the inheritance of calligraphy, Zhong Cao (钟繇)

and Wei Guan (卫灌) were the masters of the same calligraphy in the north and the south, and from the southern school, Zhi Yong (智永) and Yu Shi Nan (虞世南) followed Er Wang (二王), while from the northern school, Ouyang Xun (欧阳询) and Chu Suiliang (褚遂良), after Suo Jing (索靖) and Cui Yuyue^, emerged. Each of them was characterized by different styles, which were summed up by Ruan Yuan (阮元) as follows "The southern school is the style of Jiangzuo, sparse and elegant, long in qiqi, reduce the pen to unrecognizable".

"The Northern School is the ancient method of the Central Plains

, strict and clumsy, long in the list of tablets". He summarized the strengths and weaknesses of the two schools in a comparative statement, making the two schools clear and easy to be appreciated and understood.

Ruan Yuan also discussed the rise and fall of the Northern and Southern schools. In the late Sui and early Tang dynasties, although the Northern School of Calligraphy

experienced a change of method in the Central Plains, learners still existed, and in the Tang Dynasty, due to Emperor Taizong's high regard for Wang Xizhi, the Southern School of Calligraphy developed greatly. Although the Southern School developed rapidly, most of the calligraphy and paintings were on silk, and most of those who studied it were from the Northern School.

History developed to the Song Dynasty, the court post began to prevail, people no longer attach importance to the study of inscriptions, so the Northern School of Calligraphy began to enter into a period of decline. Ruan Yuan himself for the north and south of the calligraphy, he preferred the northern school of calligraphy inscriptions. For many years, he devoted himself to

various works of calligraphy, and his footsteps were spread all over the country.

But because of the later Northern School inscriptions works more, more make him carefully

view and study, the reason why he advocated the Northern Tablet, with his explanation is that "the Yuan and Ming calligraphers, mostly for the Pavilion Theses, and if the Purification of the Preface, and even more calligraphy, is not ugly" can be seen for the breakthrough in the pursuit of innovation, from a certain point of view, the pursuit of innovation. In a certain sense, he played a great role in promoting the formation of the trend of respecting monuments in the late period.

References

Baidu Encyclopedia - Schools of Calligraphy

These are some of the most popular schools of calligraphy in China.