Sorting out the concept of calligraphy teaching

Skills training should solve the problems of concept, vision, skills and creativity. To solve the problem of concept, we should understand the way of pen and ink from the essence of traditional culture, and then look at graphics from the perspective of graphics and learn from technology.

To solve the problem of vision, you must be knowledgeable. On the one hand, copybooks and calligraphy books should be prepared, and works on calligraphy history and aesthetic theory should be systematic. On the other hand, we should read the original works extensively.

To solve the skill problem, we should write a lot of ancient classics and difficult skills and be familiar with the properties of various tools and materials.

To solve the problem of creativity, we should start with extra-curricular efforts, integrate traditional art forms such as piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, seal cutting, architecture and gardens, and build synaesthesia among various categories of China traditional culture.

In the basic course stage, it is necessary to carry out analysis and comparison training of all kinds of writing styles, understand their own brushwork, establish basic classical consciousness, and then enter the personal main direction. At this stage, we should pay attention to the synthesis of various templates related to the main style of calligraphy, take the law as the premise, pay attention to the relationship between sources, know what it is, and even know why. At the same time, strengthen the compensation for personal temperament and integrate the relationship between related fonts and their books.

Calligraphy, remember two points, the first is the writing technique of lines, and the second is the spatial composition of lines.

The real value of calligraphy is the writing technique of lines and the spatial composition of lines. We now have many so-called calligraphy experts who dare not even admit that calligraphy is the art of lines. In the process of writing, each stippling has its own form, which is a special existence of lines in this situation. Calligraphy is the spatial relationship between lines, which gives people a direct visual feeling, which is the core content of calligraphy.

In Xiao Zhuan, Da Zhuan, Han steles with different styles, grass, grass, weeds, running script, North stele, Tang Kai, Chu Suiliang, Yan Zhenqing, Su Huang Camouflage, Dong Qichang and Wang Duo, you should know what kind of existence it is and what kind of technical support it needs. In addition, there are Qin Zhuan seal script, Han seal script and Qing seal script. What is its status? What kind of technical state is lettering and lettering? These must be understood.

It's also regular script. What is the performance within five centimeters, ten centimeters, fifteen centimeters, twenty centimeters, thirty centimeters and fifty centimeters? What kind of technical support should it have? What is the state of the same line on smooth paper? What is its status in the health announcement? What is the state on different thickness rice paper? What are the states of light ink and thick ink respectively?

As a professional calligrapher, a professional calligraphy artist and a calligraphy artist with a real sense of responsibility for the times, you need to make your technical foundation wider, thicker and bigger.

Do you know when Wang Xizhi gets up? You should know what kind of writing brush Wang Xizhi used when posting, and what kind of situation and emotion dominated him to complete a record. This is the knowledge of a professional calligrapher. So there is no end to questioning technology. No academic accumulation can replace endless questioning and research in technology. Professional taste is your status symbol as a calligrapher and your role orientation. Even if you are a craftsman in calligraphy, you are much better than those who know everything but don't know calligraphy technology at all. No matter how knowledgeable you are, you can't drive. What does it matter if you stand in front of a car, even a Mercedes? You still don't understand.

Hong Houtian: Many people say, Teacher, you asked us to write on paper. I have never seen you write on paper. You may not know that my last state may have included this step, so I took advantage of it. Why should I twist it? My pen collection this time is the next pen collection, which is included in it. This is the mutual infiltration and connection between technical practice and skills.

I also told you that the beauty of it is that a new form of overlap has yet to be completed. I don't need you to be ten points in shaping, ten points as a craftsman and eight points as a master. You mark my words. It will be done in eight minutes. You have to compare the words in the copybook with mine. Maybe not even a seven. The point is that it doesn't look like it, but it is. It's like we're looking for someone. Even though he had long hair yesterday and short hair today, you can't deny that it's him.

The goal of writing is to write it into life and be able to breathe. When the pen and ink reach this level, you will be OK. What does it need? It's technology. This system is constantly explaining this technology to you from different angles, reproducing this technology to you, and instilling this technology in you. You're going to America without flying. what can I do?

We are all bystanders when we are in contact with a new thing, but you can't complete a role change without studying it. We are not calligraphers, but we train ourselves from thinking to understanding, from ideas to skills, and from people outside calligraphy to calligraphy. Don't always think that calligraphy belongs to others, you should think that you are the one who makes calligraphy.

What did we come out to learn? It is to replace our usual habits and learning contents with learning things, instead of the form of thinking, that is, to directly replace your thinking system with the teacher's thinking system. Instead of transforming your Alto factory into an Audi factory, it is better to clean up all your pots and pans and build an Audi factory directly. The more thoroughly you clean up, the more successful the next step will be, which is why I advocate "swapping chips".

In some calligraphy teaching, you can write whatever you want. Today you write an article "Sacrificing a Nephew", and he will tell you what to pay attention to. If you want to write about Chu Suiliang, he will tell you what to pay attention to. In short, he will give you guidance on what you want to write. In other words, he just pushed you two steps forward. Where or where should your road lead? Many people come to my class and see that everyone is unified. They all write Xiao Zhuan and Yi Shan Carving Stone, and even the size and the thickness of stippling are unified. Only then do they know what professional training is. The procedure, the whole technical content and the whole evaluation standard are clear and reasonable. This is the case at the age of 20, and it is still the case at the age of 60. After doing this training, the ability to control the line is the same. Therefore, I hope that in the process of learning, everyone will try to forget the past things and completely overthrow them ideologically, so as not to let these things interfere with you. What you have learned is not to transform the old things, but to re-establish a system. With this awareness, our study will be interesting.