Collection Work Album------Zhao Mengfu's Calligraphy

Author: Jiang Jinyue (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: To facilitate calligraphy enthusiasts in copying and creating, our press has carefully selected famous steles and scripts from various dynasties to compile this series of collected-character books. The content includes Tang and Song Dynasty poems, famous couplets and quotes from all eras, and features diverse forms, representing a perfect combination of content and style. Through this series, you can not only reinforce the brushwork and structure of the studied steles and scripts but also appreciate the beautiful artistic conception of poems, couplets, and quotes. It not only enhances interest in learning calligraphy but also makes learning enjoyable, cultivating one's character.
Learning calligraphy requires copying as a fundamental step. A single script can be copied for a period of time, or even for a lifetime. However, copying is merely a means to enter the script—to grasp its brushwork techniques, structural principles, and compositional variations. Exiting the script is the ultimate goal. Simply put, initial exiting means writing freely without referring to the script, achieving both the form and spirit of the original in any character. Of course, this requires a long learning process. Many calligraphy enthusiasts often focus more on entering the script than on exiting it, making it difficult to successfully create works in a certain style. Collected-character exercises serve as a crucial intermediate step between entering and exiting the script, as well as an effective way to evaluate the results of copying.
"The Xiling Seal Society Collected-Character Works Series" will be a great helper in your calligraphy journey.