How to understand modern calligraphy?

How to appreciate modern calligraphy?

The following is created by a famous calligrapher. Personally, I have no calligraphy foundation. Welcome to consult!

Answer:

This is a big topic. There is a great difference between modern calligraphy and traditional calligraphy, which involves many artistic schools, styles and levels.

Let's talk about your calligraphy works in the problem description first. Personally, I don't like it.

First of all, this work is crooked and has no art at all. And all this is impossible. Secondly, judging from the structure, layout and brushwork of fonts, I know that I am a layman and don't have much real skills. Then when we look at the whole work, we think it's a spoof graffiti painting, which doesn't convey some thoughts and feelings.

This work well represents a fault in modern calligraphy, which is too big and inappropriate, vague and mysterious.

Many people will retort that this is innovation, this is art, and not being able to appreciate it does not mean that it is not something.

I admit that some things are artistic and some people will never appreciate them. Abstract paintings by Picasso, Van Gogh and others are really difficult and artistic.

But ... Van Gogh and Picasso's paintings have connotations and artistry. This is not my subjective judgment, but the knowledge of the art world.

Eccentricity and anti-tradition are the external manifestations of this painting, not its internal essence. In other words, the so-called western modernist art does not aim at pursuing ugliness and madness, but pursues the internal expression of meaning through this representation.

Therefore, at present, many innovative artists in China are just scratching their heads when studying western art. They see madness and ugliness, but they don't see the truth, goodness and beauty hidden behind them. They believe that modern calligraphy and modern art should take ugliness as beauty and pursue the external essence of ugliness. In fact, this is just their self-deception.

If they really believe in ugliness, why don't they marry an ugly wife? Why do you dress up so formally in public? Why don't you be a beggar? Why not yearn for shabby and dirty slums and live in modern and comfortable small buildings?

I have no interest in modern art, and my understanding of modern ideas is only a simple understanding of this genre, which will lead to ugly books.

With all due respect, I can't give modern calligraphy a reasonable definition, nor can I give them a comprehensive, completely fair and objective evaluation. I can only talk about my thoughts on modern calligraphy.

As for the good side of modern calligraphy, it is not clear at present, and the future of calligraphy is still uncertain. At present, the people I admire and the calligraphy I appreciate are still in dispute, so it is inconvenient to evaluate. But please believe that the smog will disperse and people are calling for the return of tradition.