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Artistic characters (pinyin: míI shùzì) are processed, beautified and modified characters. In other words, it is a kind of writing art that beautifies characters by decorative means, and it is a practical font for artistic processing. The font is neat, eye-catching, beautiful and easy to identify, which is an indispensable tool for publicity and education, such as banner slogans, blackboard newspapers, wall newspapers, venue layout, exhibitions, commodity packaging and decoration, and all kinds of advertisements, newspapers, magazines and books are inseparable from calligraphy. Composition, picture, calligraphy and color are the four basic elements of decorative art design.

These four elements, like the four violins in the Quartet, all play beautiful melodies and are equally important. If everyone wants to improve his voice, it is bound to be improperly matched and out of tune, and the audience will hear harsh noise and lose their aesthetic feeling. Therefore, we must cooperate skillfully to play beautiful, beautiful and harmonious music. Calligraphy type:

1, points come from countries.

It can be divided into China artists and foreign artists.

2, from the use of points.

Can be divided into life printing, book binding, environmental binding, blackboard newspaper, wall newspaper, commercial art, advertising, trademarks and so on.

3, from the form of points.

Can be divided into graphic art figures and three-dimensional art figures; Or realistic calligraphy and freehand brushwork.

4. From the font.

It can be divided into three categories: loose body, bold and unconstrained, and variant.

The development process of artistic figures

People should pay attention to and understand calligraphy, so it is necessary to understand the origin of Chinese characters and calligraphy.

On the basis of language, human beings have produced words. What is writing? Characters are symbols used to record languages. Chinese characters are symbols for recording Chinese. It has gone through several stages of evolution, such as Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscription, Dazhuan, Xiaozhuan, Lishu, regular script, cursive script and running script.

oracle bone script

1899 The earliest Shang Dynasty "Oracle Bone Inscriptions" was discovered in Anyang, Henan, with a history of more than 3,000 years. It is both pictographic and phonetic. It can be seen that it originated from pictures and had a long history of development before the Shang Dynasty. "Bronze inscriptions" are words cast on bronzes, which are collectively called "a bronze inscription". Among them, some characters are the same as the pictures. We call it hieroglyphics, which are very vivid. For example, the sun, the moon, mountains, water, grass, trees, fish and birds. (The characters in ancient western countries, such as Egypt and Greece, also developed from "the era of picture characters-uppercase letters-lowercase letters". For example, A developed from the cow's head, B from the yard, K from the grass, M from the water, O from the eyes, N from the snake and R from the human head. . . . . . )。

Inscriptions on drum stones in the Warring States Period (475-22 BC1year)

Later, China characters experienced "Shi Guwen" (characters carved on stone drums), belonging to the characters of the Zhou Dynasty. Later, the ancient script books circulated in the Han Dynasty and the characters engraved on the wall were all ancient scripts, collectively known as "Da Zhuan". Compared with the original Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the development of Da Zhuan is linear, even and soft, concise and vivid; Second, standardization, fonts tend to be neat, and gradually break away from the original shape of the picture, laying the foundation for square characters.

Small/small seal characters

After Qin Shihuang unified the whole country, he abolished the words that were inconsistent with the Qin language. After collecting, sorting and simplifying, Li Si and others produced a unified word-Xiao Zhuan. Compared with the college, the shape of Xiao Zhuan is simplified, linear and standardized to a perfect degree. Almost completely divorced from pictures and words, it looks neat and harmonious, very beautiful, basically a rectangular square font. (demonstration)

Compared with the big seal, the small seal has made progress, but it also has shortcomings, that is, it is not convenient to carve with a knife and write with a pen. As a result, almost at the same time, a kind of writing-official script, spread to both sides and became a flat square. The ancient official script is the font of the transition from Xiao Zhuan to today's official script, and it is also the bridge between ancient Chinese characters and today's characters. It is characterized by changing the lines with uniform thickness of seal script into straight and angular strokes such as horizontal, straight, dot, left, pick, dot and hook, which is much more convenient to write with a pen. For example, the word "Tian" written by Xiao Zhuan has a circle outside and a cross inside. It is difficult to write a circle, so the ancient official script becomes straight and square, and it is much easier to write the word "Tian". The appearance of official script also abandoned the pictographic characters drawn by Xiao Zhuan in kind, changed the pictographic and ideographic characters in the pre-Qin period into ideographic and phonographic characters, and began to shape Chinese characters for two thousand years. "Guli" developed to the Han Dynasty, and on the basis of straightness and edges, it formed a fair and beautiful "Jinli" with the tendency of picking the law. Compared with Guli, it gives full play to the characteristics of Chinese calligraphy and forms a more mature and beautiful font. Because her two strokes spread out to both sides, like an "eight", it is also called "eight-point book" (more famous in Wang Ci of the Eastern Han Dynasty).

regular script

Real books are also called official script and regular script. The western Han dynasty began to sprout, the eastern Han dynasty was immature, and it flourished after Wei and Jin dynasties. Real calligraphy evolved directly from modern Li, with little difference in shape and structure, but with different brush strokes: modern Li's strokes are smooth; The physical structure of the golden calendar is straight and square, with a square of eight characters, while the real one is a square with a permanent shape; Today's Chinese characters expand outward, and real books concentrate inward, forming today's Chinese characters. Several real calligraphers in the Three Kingdoms period also had the style of official script. Later, Wang Xizhi, a real calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and his son Wang Xianzhi completely got rid of the style of official script.

print

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the economy was developed, and a "golden age" appeared in words. Especially in the middle of 1 1 century, Bi Sheng invented "printing" (movable type printing), which is called "the mother of civilization". At that time, Buddhist scriptures, almanac and other printed materials were very popular, and later they were introduced to Korea, Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Iran, Egypt and Europe. After the invention of printing, the carving knife used for lettering had a far-reaching impact on the font of Chinese characters, resulting in a preliminary "horizontal light and straight weight, eye-catching and easy to read" printing font. The common "square and uniform structure" printing font in the Northern Song Dynasty was called "Song Style". There are two kinds of fonts for the moment: fat imitation face and Liu style; Thin imitation of European body and dangerous body.

Song typeface

In the Ming Dynasty, it changed from Song-style characters to Ming-style characters (such as official title cards, lanterns, private stone notices, ancestral temples, etc.). This font is widely used because it is horizontal and vertical, easy to carve, respected and easy to read. Until today, it is also a very popular printing font, and it is still called "Song Hippo Little Chef" or "Lead Hippo Little Chef". Later, people gradually imitated Song Ci with a brush, so imitation of Song Ci appeared. Some people call the imitation song style "new song style", and the original type is "old song style"

cursive script

Cursive script is a natural product of rapid writing and continuous simplification. Each font has a cursive script that has been used by the people, including Zhuan Cao, Li Shu (official cursive script), Zhang Cao (official cursive script), Jin Cao and Kuang Cao (all real cursive scripts). Writing from Cao Li to Cao Zhang is fast, easy to understand and of high use value; The current grass is scrawled, resulting in the connection between upper and lower characters and strokes, which is not easy to identify; Weeds is full of words bit by bit, losing the reading value of words and becoming a work of art for appreciation only.

Semi-cursive/running/calligraphy (China's calligraphy)

Running script is a font between the original and cursive script in the late Han Dynasty (the original is written quickly, and it becomes a running script when you walk continuously like a human). On the one hand, it is inspired by the "quick and smooth" writing method of modern grass, which makes up for the shortcomings that modern grass is not easy to read; On the other hand, it follows the "neat form" of real books and makes up for its inability to write quickly. Until today, it is a font that can be written and recognized quickly and has the greatest practical value. The earliest calligrapher in history is Liu Desheng, and the most famous is Wang Xizhi.

To sum up, the development of Chinese characters, from a physical point of view, is a history of development from pictographic pictures to linear symbols, strokes adapted to brush writing and printed fonts easy to engrave. It can also be divided into ancient Chinese characters and modern Chinese characters. The era of ancient Chinese characters includes Da Zhuan and Xiao Zhuan; The era of transition from ancient Chinese characters to modern Chinese characters is ancient Li; Today's writing era includes today's official script, original works and simplified characters.

So, what are the artistic characteristics of several figures in the two eras? I think: "Da Zhuan" is realistic and powerful, rough and bold; The small seal is round and soft, and the structure is rigorous; Lishu is dignified and simple, giving full play to the characteristics of writing with brush; Real books are neat and beautiful, which further exerts the advantages of brush application; The running script is lively and cheerful, and the pulse is connected; The cursive script is excited by wind power and has a compact structure. Meanwhile, every calligrapher has his own unique style in writing.

As an artistic figure, it is a kind of writing art that beautifies characters with decorative techniques. As early as the Han Dynasty, Xu Zhen, a famous writer, divided fonts into six types, among which "Bird and Insect" was an artistic word in the ancient Chinese character era. This fully shows that our ancestors could write artistic Chinese characters with beautiful shapes and postures as early as 3000 years ago. Such as bird books, phoenix tail books and so on. In addition, there are some popular folk applied fine arts characters, which have been popular until today and are still loved by the broad masses. For example, the word double happiness. These ancient characters enrich the treasure house of China's calligraphy art, which is a valuable heritage in the field of art and is worth learning and using for reference. I hope it helps. ...