Regular Script Composition - Revised Edition

Author: Zhang Youdong
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The layout of clerical script is fundamentally the same as that of other scripts. Style is the most convenient form for classifying calligraphy works, so the chapters of this revised edition are still organized by style. The revised edition continues to borrow from Mr. Yang Zaichun's Clerical Script Layout, which has been published for ten years and has sold over 100,000 copies, receiving great love from readers and friends in the calligraphy world. However, when reviewing the flaws of the book from ten years ago, I deeply felt its immaturity and superficiality. Mr. Yang Zaichun suggested revising and republishing this book, so I have selected over a hundred works from recent years to include in it, accounting for about 80% of the book. Although I still feel there are many flaws, I hope to present it to readers in a new form for criticism and guidance.
The layout, brushwork, and structure in calligraphy are all fundamental artistic languages and forms of calligraphic creation. We should skillfully use formal beauty principles such as order, uniformity, symmetry, proportion, rhythm, and unity to refine artistic language and study creation. Furthermore, we must seek the artistic beauty, artistic style, and artistic expressiveness of calligraphy. Like other literary and artistic works, calligraphy possesses the essence of beauty and also has aesthetic forms such as sublimity, elegance, comedy, and tragedy. The creation of clerical script works should also pursue this.
Outstanding calligraphy works from China's dynasties have built the magnificent hall of calligraphy art with their rich artistic language, formal beauty, and aesthetic forms. As successors, we should strive tirelessly to uphold inheritance and innovation, so as to live up to the demands of the new era.