Why do some people say cursive is line art?

Calling cursive "line art" is a simplistic and superficial understanding and distortion of cursive as a typeface. In the long run, it will mislead the public's thinking.

Let's start with the concept of "line". Calligraphy is closest to painting, but it is not painting. When drawing, lines are used to define outlines, which is called drawing.

If you add the quality and technical requirements, it is called painting. Chinese painting has the so-called "eighteen strokes". There are curves, straight lines, dashed lines, thick lines, thin lines, solid lines, dashed lines, etc.

The most important thing is the quality and technical requirements of the pen.

Even Western painting shows "lines" in drawings and sketches, but there is no such thing as "line art". All images and forms are a combination of points, lines, and planes.

Separate column calligraphy, then pushed to "cursive".First of all, it is not the art of painting and tracing. This is written, more technical than painting, and brevity is by no means simple,Cursive writing is by no means something that can be practiced by hasty and carelessness. It was forged by the Chinese with thousands of years of history.

It cannot degenerate into a mere combination of "threads".

Calligraphy, a high level of graphic art. Cursive is the "crown" of calligraphy, the basic skill of painting (painting), the combination skill of increasing the difficulty, the effect consciousness of lyrical freehand, and a comprehensive art project. It embodies many phenomena of the unity of opposites, that is, the combination of virtual and real, the combination of movement and static, and the alternation of dense and dense.

It can be seen that the structure and layout are impermeable, the changes are endless, and the performance is unexpected. If you lack a deep and meticulous rational cognition, and only see it as the creative effect of the combination of inorganic lines, you will weaken its high-quality connotation, and at the same time guide the meaningless arbitrariness and simplification of creative consciousness.

Because the cursive font looks chic and heroic, and sometimes it is difficult to read.

Because cursive writing is written to the end, it will make people feel very sloppy, and it also gives people a kind of line beauty. But not everyone thinks so, and some people think cursive is a very ugly type.

Cursive writing is more heroic, and the handwriting is more difficult to read, so it is called line art.

Not only is cursive writing a line art, but other calligraphy is also a line art, and the dot painting of Chinese characters is an important element of calligraphy, and people who write cursive can only write beautiful fonts if they master dot painting.

It is because those cursive scripts are composed of lines, and cursive writing is relatively sloppy, there is no rule to follow, and many people can't read cursive.

There are many people who refer to cursive writing as line art because they think that just looking at the appearance is like flowing water.

The reason why this is said is because cursive calligraphy is, to some extent, one of the simplest types of calligraphy.

Because we can't read it, but it's beautiful.

In fact, such a statement also has a certain degree of reasonableness, but it is not entirely correct.

Cursive is a type of Chinese calligraphy art, and its appearance can be traced back to the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Cursive has a unique style, strong personality characteristics and strong artistic expression, and it is the most personalized kind of Chinese calligraphy art.

Cursive writing is a kind of "verve" beauty, which expresses the flow of ink through changes in lines, strokes, spacing, etc., as well as the perception of the soul and the imitation of emotions. The artistic aesthetics of cursive writing are mainly reflected in the following aspects:

First, the unrestrained lines.

The lines of cursive writing are very unrestrained, it is not constrained, not confined to form, and has a strong sense of movement and vitality. The lines of cursive can be long, short, thick, thin, curved, straight, circling, interspersed, etc., and the combination and variation of these lines form the unique charm of cursive.

2. Unique stroke techniques.

The strokes of cursive script are very unique, it does not write each character stroke by stroke like regular script, but incorporates personal emotions and artistic conceptions into the strokes. Cursive strokes can be virtual and real, chic and free, with a clear center of gravity, ready to go, etc., and the characteristics and changes of these strokes are also important aspects of the aesthetics of cursive art.

Third, just the right spacing.

Spacing in cursive is very important and determines the layout and visual appearance of the entire cursive text. The spacing of cursive can be compact, spacious, staggered, rhythmic, and so on, and the variations and combinations of these spacing form the overall aesthetic of cursive.

Fourth, the artistic conception of freedom.

The artistic conception of cursive is very free, it is not constrained, it is not bound by rules and forms. Cursive works can be lyrical, bold, tragic, graceful, etc., and the expression of these artistic conceptions is the core of the aesthetics of cursive art.

In short, the artistic aesthetic of cursive is a unique aesthetic method, which is characterized by unrestrained lines, unique stroke techniques, just the right spacing and free artistic conception, showing the most personalized side of Chinese calligraphy art.

It must be normal, ordinary people are not particularly interested in art, and it is really difficult for ordinary people to appreciate art, or it is difficult to find its value.

It's normal, because cursive writing is also a kind of literary culture, and many people who practice calligraphy may not have enough level to appreciate its ingenuity, let alone ordinary people who are not literally literate.

It is normal for ordinary people to not be able to read it, because cursive writing is characterized by sloppy writing but has its own unique characteristics, and people who have not studied this will definitely not be able to understand it.

Cursive as an art, it is normal for normal people not to understand, not everyone can appreciate art, only those who like it and know how to appreciate it can understand it.

Cursive is a special system of knotting, and without special learning, it is a layman. It's normal for a layman not to understand.

I don't know much cursive anyway, I heard a friend say that there is a cursive trick to learn cursive, as long as you are familiar with cursive and practice, you can be familiar with it, and it is normal for ordinary people to not understand!

Not daring to hold a pen and not being able to write is the pain of the times, and how many people are ashamed of the words they write well. Writing is not an art but a life skill, and learning cursive will not make it so difficult or slow.

Cursive is to be learned! I haven't learned, how can I understand it! If you haven't learned it and say you understand it, that's nonsense! If you eat for a lifetime, you can't be a chef, that's something to learn!

I haven't learned cursive, so it can be said that it is difficult to understand, but it can also be said that everyone can understand the art! The so-called incomprehension means that the content and meaning of the text are not understood, which is natural and normal. After all, it's a new set of text symbols, how can you understand it if you haven't learned it?

It's almost the same as a foreign Chinese language! The so-called everyone can understand, refers to the beauty of the image of cursive, the beauty of sexual rhythm and rhythm, the beauty of artistic conception, the beauty of posture, the beauty of bones, the beauty of spirit, the beauty of temperament and personality, and the difference between its advantages and disadvantages is something that everyone can feel! It's like we don't know the **, but the beauty played by the band can be felt by everyone!

Calligraphy has nothing to do with what is written. Calligraphy is solidified**, just like listening to a foreign song, a song without lyrics. It's just good to the ear.

Cursive writing is very incisive, and his writing is very beautiful and mysterious, so it is normal for ordinary people not to understand it.

Cursive is temperamental, feeling in the heart, and the heart is interested in the ink, in order to be touching!

Now cursive "Immortals, what should I do if I don't know them?"

Chinese characters are made up of dot painting, which refers to the lines in the art of calligraphy. The reason why lines can give people a sense of beauty is that they can make people feel corresponding, such as horizontal lines that make people feel vast and calm; The vertical line makes people feel upright and rising; Curves make people feel soft and flowing; The diagonal line makes one feel critical and precipitous. Calligraphers use these expressive functions of lines and brush and ink techniques to express various artistic conceptions and tastes, arousing corresponding emotions in the audience.

The tension of thin lines is expressed, and if the book lacks the skill of dot painting, it can still describe the text; If cursive violates the law of "making turns", it cannot be written, because making turns is the shape of cursive, and an important part of making the turn is that cursive must have both regular meanings. If this is ignored, cursive writing is a failure to be disciplined. This also emphasizes that the flowing cursive script should have the tendency of dot painting, and should imply the static beauty of regular script.

Sun Guoting cited the aesthetic example of "Yuan Chang is not grassy, so that it turns vertical and horizontal", and also cited the aesthetic example of "Bo Ying is not true and dotted with wolves". That is to say, the grass sage Zhang Zhi's work is not a real book but a cursive script, but it is full of regular meaning, giving people the feeling of dot painting in regular script. Similarly, Zhang Xu's "Four Posts of Ancient Poems in Cursive Script", due to the so-called "stopping the pen everywhere", pays attention to the turning and unloading, because it can make people feel that the dot painting is all over the place in the flowing lines.

In the beginning, the purpose of writing was to convey information, to communicate and communicate.

Cursive writing, on the other hand, represents an aesthetic tendency, which expresses the beauty of a kind of writing and gives it an aesthetic orientation.

The development and maturity of cursive writing is the manifestation of the development of calligraphy, and it is the stage of calligraphy moving from spontaneous to completely conscious, with strong aesthetics.

Neither is the reason.

Or not all.

Chinese calligraphy is at the heart of traditional Chinese art. It's not just art. Or philosophy, aesthetics, historiography. The small concept of art is not enough to describe it.

Among the elements of calligraphy are lines and brush qualities. Of course, one is a technique of expression and the other is a tool, and it cannot be the key to making calligraphy an art.

Calligraphy is what makes it an art. It must be viewed from the perspective of human history and philosophy, and his history is also a glimpse of Chinese history. Its significance lies in providing a progressive impetus for the survival and development of mankind.

It provides nourishment for the formation of various disciplines. In the process of increasing and absorbing changes, he has become an art in his own right.