Chinese Artistic Character——Shen XiaoPing

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Carry forward the art of Chinese painting and calligraphy, carry forward the Chinese spirit, present the image of Chinese painting and calligraphy to the world, and show the dialogue and exchanges between Chinese artists and international culture.

In order to allow foreign art lovers and collectors to have a deeper understanding of Chinese traditional culture and art, New Media has specially planned this art topic, which is pided into two versions in Chinese and English. This event was recommended by the Singapore Academy of Arts and Singapore Lianhe Zaobao. I believe this special topic will make Chinese painting and calligraphy a wave of art overseas!

Shen Xiaoping, from Dongkou, Hunan Province. Contemporary famous calligraphers, poets, writers, collectors and connoisseurs. Member of the Chinese poetry society, member of the Chinese collectors association, top-grade author of Chinese poetry, chief artist of the Chinese calligrapher Research Association, national first-class artist, vice president of the people's art daily Council, vice president of the Chinese calligrapher Research Association, vice president of the Chinese enterprise reporting art capital Council, vice president of the Chinese poetry alliance Vice president of Chinese contemporary literature society, honorary president of China International Federation of calligraphy and painting artists, etc.

For decades, he has continuously strengthened his moral and cultural cultivation and loved calligraphy, collection and study of metrical poetry. Calligraphy: from childhood, there are many calligraphy calligraphy. Xing, Kai, Li, Cao and Zhuan won many advantages, studied hard, inherited the ancient and innovated; It combines hardness and softness with ink. The ink is thick and light. The layout is dense and ingenious. Moreover, it has a wide range of faces and is rich in changes. They are independent. Achieve the origin of the pen, the artistic conception of the words, and the charm of the articles, which shocked the viewer. More than 200 large-scale books have been compiled; In terms of collection, he has deep research on porcelain, high ancient jade, bronze, bronze mirrors and heavenly beads, and has the dual skills of collectors and connoisseurs. There are nearly 5000 collections of all kinds; Poetry: nearly 1000 works have been published in the world of poetry, friends of poetry, Chinese poetry and other famous large-scale poetry journals and newspapers.

Over the years, poetry and calligraphy have won many awards at home and abroad, and have won many honorary titles, such as "century glory · national highest achievement award in literature and art", "literary leader · national highest honor award", "Republic glory Chinese cultural treasure Award", Chinese art saint, art leader, Chinese International Art giant and so on.

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Appreciating antiques with poems and books

——On Mr. Shen Xiaoping's calligraphy art

A few days ago, a reporter friend sent me an artist's calligraphy works and materials for me to comment on. At first, I refused. But it was because my friend had helped me before and I couldn't refute his face. I plan to see it in my heart, and then talk freely is an explanation. However, after reading some of Mr. Shen Xiaoping's works and materials, I gave up my previous thoughts and read some of his works on the Internet, which was very shocked. Mr. Shen impressed me not only by the calligraphy part told me by his friends, but also by his attainments in collection and poetry. I have always believed that the traditional pen and ink techniques of Chinese art are not only broad and profound, but also cover the humanistic background.

To appreciate Shen Xiaoping's calligraphy, on the one hand, we can see his systematic thinking on artistic language in impromptu expression, and also the calligrapher's interest in traditional calligraphy. Because the aesthetic concept of Chinese character art is basically the same as that of literature and art, they all pay attention to "simplicity, easy to chat, and have a far-reaching flavor". For the beauty of neutralization. This neutral aesthetic view opposes extreme and too rigid or too soft. We pay attention to the combination of hardness and softness. In fact, we pay attention to external softness and internal hardness, and there is movement in stillness. It is "taking advantage of movement to take potential, and taking rhyme with emptiness and harmony". Therefore, it is said in the calligraphy appointment that the brushwork is light but not beautiful, smooth but not tight, and culvert but not dew. The purpose of expounding these is to require the aesthetic consciousness of calligraphy art, and to emphasize the highest level of Calligraphy: the seemingly inadvertent brushwork integrates the calligrapher's skills, imagination and knowledge, the unique understanding of words, words, sentences and articles, as well as the hard to achieve ambition and soft to express emotion condensed by traditional aesthetics, "only the most soft is the most rigid. Determined to be true, I have the same temperament. " It carries the beauty of implicit neutralization. Secondly, we should also grasp the interaction between writing and aesthetic subject in the free play, so that this rigid and soft "random" can run in with spiritual consciousness repeatedly under the guidance of writing method, arouse the calligrapher's strong desire for expression, and make the connotation of calligraphy reach an unspeakable but resonant collision with the form after having quite rich feelings, Take the art of calligraphy as an example. We must feel the understanding of human nature in our works that our predecessors have not shown. According to my own understanding, his "transcendence" spirit is to surpass the secular heart of emptiness and stillness, and internalize the objective things into emptiness and stillness. In this emptiness and stillness, which greatly leads to its interest, it implies that the heavenly wind in the calligrapher's pen and ink highlights a temptation to deepen the composition of the work. In the intense tension of the lines, the brushwork of "Tian" becomes one with "wind". In the subconscious mind without distractions, even the "wind" becomes a whole, making a bold rather than traditional artistic treatment in the composition. This has constituted the flexibility and maturity of Shen Xiaoping's pen composition outside the conceptual semantics. To a certain extent, it shows the poetic vision that the wind implied in modern spiritual life is around. Through the unique ingenuity of the calligraphers, they especially show that the "heavenly wind" brings us a hidden and extraordinary artistic creativity under the ordinary appearance in the sense dimension of composition. As for the turning point of Shen Xiaoping's calligraphy art, those who have seen his works know that whenever a new style is determined and an artistic rebellion is completed, he will have too many deep-rooted and smoky thoughts, which makes his brand-new exploration extremely contradictory to the inheritance of tradition. It is precisely because of Shen Xiaoping's contradiction and struggle, rebellion and subversion, after mastering the hardware that inpiduals must have, he created an unprecedented and unique calligraphy art. This is Shen Xiaoping's lifelong pursuit on the road of calligraphy art.

▲Appreciation of Mr.Huang MingYun's works

The creation of traditional calligraphy is to follow the rules and learn from famous masters in the long-term formation of writing rules. For example, it is impossible for us to make new creations in the possession, exposure, square and circle of our pens. This is also a common puzzle faced by other art categories. Because the connotation and charm of any art form are inseparable symbionts. On the one hand, their stagnation and degradation will inevitably lead to the replacement and rebirth of the new forces on the other hand. Shen Xiaoping has deeply understood the true meaning of the law of art development. He has completed the communication between people and things in the process of dealing with pen and ink. Modern calligraphy can not only meet people's expectations of novelty and novelty, but also awaken people's memory of traditional art. Shen Xiaoping has chosen such a calligraphy fulcrum that is confined to tradition and jumps out of tradition, which is mostly reflected in his works "literature carries the way, Shoushan Fuhai", "niannujiao · Chibi nostalgia", or his works "struggle", "don't live in leisure, success must seek from diligence" and "Chinese dream". These works show a symbolic internal composition of facing the art of calligraphy and Exploring Innovation to varying degrees, and become an active breakthrough element. This reflects the calligrapher's artistic space, and effectively expresses Shen Xiaoping's persistent pursuit of artistic style - regular script represents his views and experiences on calligraphy, running script and cursive script represent his aesthetic awareness of modern consciousness, and official script and seal script represent his transmission and development of traditional calligraphy.

▲Appreciation of Mr.Huang MingYun's works

Shen Xiaoping, a poet and calligrapher who is naturally very sensitive to calligraphy, has carefully figured out and uniquely understood life and art as he grows older, increases his experience, accumulates knowledge and experience, and selects the fulcrum of calligraphy feeling and vision, which is more and more broad and arbitrary, especially for lines, grass, regular script, official script and seal script, He is a move among force and soft, and he can be used to be a good and natural person. The calligrapher's works are naturally blended into a poetic whole. Shen Xiaoping's awe of calligraphy, his courage to push through the old and bring forth the new, his courage to learn from his predecessors and his courage to explore higher than his predecessors, embracing all rivers, winning many strengths and complementing each other, may be the root of the magnetic aura in his works. Here, I may not need to emphasize again his detachment from traditional calligraphy, his love and consciousness for art like Shen Xiaoping, and constantly create an artistic element that is also different from western modern art.

Ren Deshan was in Beijing on August 14, 2015

(ren Deshan: once served as assistant curator Huang Zhou of Yanhuang Art Museum. He is now a special editor, reviewer and publishing consultant of the Central Compilation and Translation Press, a keynote speaker and academic consultant of the CCTV calligraphy and painting channel, and a chief researcher of the Oriental Management Research Institute of Xi'an Jiaotong University. Famous sinologists, calligraphers, painting and calligraphy critics, historians and publishers.)

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Ouyang Zhongshi commented on Shen Xiaoping's Calligraphy:

Calligraphy can build art on pen and ink and express the character of the calligrapher. Different calligraphers have different experiences and different cultural connotations, so their works will also have different characteristics and styles. Mr. Shen Xiaoping's calligraphy has a profound theoretical foundation of calligraphy, is full of passion, has spiritual compatibility and intercommunication, is simple, steady, innovative, has a very rigorous word structure, and has a quite flexible writing method, which reflects a kind of righteous atmosphere and masculinity, and is extremely rich. This is not exactly the same as what we usually call bookish spirit. His calligraphy is mostly expressed in dripping and natural pen and ink. When creating, he dares to break the stereotype of traditional thinking and pursue a new beauty of harmony. I think he is still practicing. His practice itself has played a leading role in the development of traditional Chinese characters. Our era needs this calligraphy atmosphere.

▲Appreciation of Mr.Huang MingYun's works

Shen Peng comments:

Shen Xiaoping's calligraphy has clean ink, exquisite and powerful handwriting, extraordinary momentum of dancing Danqing, integrates a certain charm, does not compete for fame and wealth with the world, only climbs high and low with the ancients, and has the spirit of promoting the revival of Chinese calligraphy culture and art.