"Ugly book culture" is increasingly rampant. What exactly does ugly book mean?

The aesthetics of art often confuses the public, because the artist's creative form does not necessarily conform to the public's appreciation taste and habits, and sometimes it is far from the public's requirements. I have seen/kloc-the sculpture Thinking by Rodin, a western artist in the 9th century. Exquisite and simple creative techniques make people feel beautiful. But who would have thought that Rodin, who could create such a beautiful sculpture, later created an extremely ugly Balzac! If some people say that western artists go to extremes, what about artists in China? Let's take a look at Qi Baishi, the most prestigious China painter in the 20th century. His painting style is simple and fresh. He can draw very fine insects and birds, but what represents his painting style is the old brushwork and clumsy structure, which can be clearly felt from his figure paintings.

Huang, the most puzzling master of Chinese painting in the 20th century, had a fine brushwork style in the early and middle period, but his painting style in his later years was full of colors and great momentum. If people who are used to watching the "Four Heavenly Kings" all the way will definitely say when they look at Huang; "What an ugly word"; Li Keran, a landscape painter who experienced the most revolutionary period in China, integrated his deep understanding of lines and brushwork into sketch painting, giving Chinese painting a brand-new realm with a heavy and ugly style. ...

China's calligraphy is not all beautiful in history. Three generations of inscriptions, simple and natural; The official script of Han dynasty is thick and heavy; The inscriptions in the Northern and Southern Dynasties are magnificent; The book style of the Tang Dynasty is outstanding and outstanding ... Even the book style of Wang Xizhi, who is respected as a book saint by later generations, is calm, happy and lofty. However, due to the misunderstanding and misinformation of Wang Shu's style in history, people often regard beauty and sweetness as synonymous with Wang Shu.

Up to now, some famous calligraphers who don't know much about tradition have painted some unattractive popular calligraphy styles into representative calligraphy styles of the new era in the name of the traditional two kings, which makes people laugh and cry. More importantly, it is beautiful and sweet to oppose simplicity, massiness, solemnity, depression, arrogance and Gu Zhuo. And they are all regarded as "ugly", which is quite revolutionary in calligraphy. In view of this, it is necessary for us to distinguish the concepts and connotations of "beauty" and "ugliness" in artistic aesthetics.