Eye rim and exquisite calligraphy prose

Suhomlinsky, the former Soviet aesthetics educator, once wrote a letter to his daughter, talking about love: "One day, on a quiet night in early autumn, she and I sat under a tree with dense leaves. Under the apple tree, looking at the cranes flying to the warm remote areas, I asked my grandmother: 'Grandma, what is love? '" My grandmother told him a fairy tale: "A man and a woman sometimes look at the sky, and sometimes They looked at each other again, and at this moment, their eyes met. God saw in them an incredible beauty and a power that he had never seen before. This beauty was far beyond the blue sky and the sun. The land and the fields of wheat are, in a word, more beautiful than anything God has ever made and created, a beauty that makes God tremble and marvel. “This is love. There is always strange beauty and power in the eyes of love.

So what was it like when you first felt love? The word "eye edge" comes to mind. Eye edge is a kind of intuition, but all rational beauty falls to pieces in front of this eye edge. Yes, in real life, sometimes from a rational point of view, there is indeed a perfect girl or boy, but it just cannot make people's hearts flutter. Why does intuitive beauty trump rational beauty? This is really a question worth thinking about.

There are similar problems in the art of calligraphy. Some calligraphy works, when we glance at them, our hearts are instantly filled with beauty; some calligraphy works, we only recognize the beauty rationally, but they cannot be seen as beautiful in the senses. It seems that calligraphy also has eye problems. Of course, it would be best if it has both perceptual beauty and rational beauty. Peng Lixun said in the article "From "Entertainment to the Eyes and Ears" to "Pleasure to the Mind": "In the stage of perceptual knowledge, there are mainly sensory pleasures and general satisfactory experiences; after entering the stage of rational knowledge, the main ones are Emotional touch, spiritual satisfaction, joy, intoxication and ecstasy. The former gives people the feeling of "pleasant to the eyes and ears", while the latter gives people the feeling of "pleasant to the mind and pleasing to the soul". Although it is often based on the former, it is characterized by the latter." He went on to further explain: "The characteristic of beauty lies in the pleasant emotion of beauty, that is, the spiritual satisfaction and intoxication obtained from the recognition of beauty. It is 'pleasure and joy'. The understanding of beauty is an image thinking activity that integrates perceptual and rational, individual and general, phenomenon and essence, content and form. It includes multiple psychological functions such as perception, association, imagination, and understanding." This passage clearly shows that the understanding of true beauty is the harmonious unity of intuitive beauty and rational beauty.

So, can we say that intuitive beauty is shallow while rational beauty is profound? I don’t think so. It should be said that intuitive beauty has a single essence, while rational beauty is rich and profound. For example, natural beauty, which most people only find pleasing to the eyes and ears, contains the essential aesthetic ideals in people's subconscious. People with aesthetic accomplishments will see the beauty of harmony, beauty of quality, and morality under the influence of empathy. Beauty and other rich and profound beauty. Hegel said: "Natural beauty also obtains a special certification due to the mood it inspires and the mood it conforms to. ... The meaning here does not belong to the object itself, but lies in the mood it awakens. We even say that animals are beautiful, if they appear It shows that a certain kind of soul expression is consistent with human characteristics, such as bravery, strength, agility, kindness, etc. From one perspective, this expression is inherent to the object, and it shows one aspect of animal life. On the other hand, this kind of expression is related to human concepts and unique emotions." Sun Wenxian also said in "On the Significance of Emotion in Aesthetics": "The subject understands the value content contained in beautiful objects. The deeper the experience, the richer the emotional experience; and the richer the aesthetic emotion, the deeper the perception, the more active the imagination, and the more knowledge can unearth more value content from limited and specific objects, thus reflecting more profoundly. "The object of beauty." This is all from the perspective of richness and depth.

In this way, intuitive beauty, although it does not have the characteristics of rational beauty to experience beauty in analysis, it also contains subconscious rationality.

There is also a kind of "clumsy" that is actually innovation. Song Cao said in "Calligraphy Essays": "Familiarity will lead to skillfulness, and clumsiness must be more than skillfulness, and then true skillfulness will emerge." He also said, "The calligraphy must come first and then become mature. Once you are familiar with it, you will be born later. Those who are new to the world will not be able to learn well, and their minds and hands will be inconsistent; those who are new to the world will not fall into the wrong path and change without reason." This kind of "clumsy" calligraphy is more about pursuing a kind of wild taste, which is really formed by an impossible method. A state of mind, because the reason why it is "clumsy" is that it breaks through the rules of calligraphy, it is a transcendence of traditional aesthetic taste, and it is a unique discovery of a discerning eye, so it is more innovative. Some people also say that cleverness is hidden in clumsiness, just to pursue a naive or elegant style, that's all.

In short, the visual effect of calligraphy is actually about the visual effect of calligraphy. Some people say that this includes two levels. One is to attract attention. To achieve this, one will naturally pursue colorful, abnormal and ugly brushwork. Strange shapes and huge length; secondly, it can intoxicate the eyes. This means that we should not only pay attention to the visual impact of the surface content, but should pursue aesthetic connotation and elegant charm. Calligraphy should naturally pursue the latter. And speaking of eyesight does not exclude rational appreciation. To obtain a rich sense of beauty, consciousness is indispensable. Zhu Isaac said in "The Significance of the Visual Effects of Calligraphy": "For example, when we appreciate Lu Xun's calligraphy works, our spiritual experience will be more profound than the visual acceptance. And the visual effect of Guo Moruo's calligraphy works is first-class, the kind between the lines. The eagerness to express, the flamboyant mood, the stretch of talent, and the unrestrained style are fully revealed in the use of long lines, but the connotation of "Guo Shuxun and Lu Shuyi" reflects the value of this slow taste. We hope that calligraphy works are truly beautiful and durable, and can be recognized by the explicit consciousness and happily accepted by the hidden subconscious mind.