Not long ago, at Beijing Poly's 10th anniversary autumn auction, the cover work of the brochure Wen Zhengming's "Volume of Miscellaneous Poems" was sold for a high price of 81.65 million. It set a new auction record for Wen Zhengming's calligraphy.
Wen Zhengming's calligraphy and painting attainments are extremely comprehensive. He is excellent in poetry, essays, calligraphy and painting. He is known as an all-rounder with "Four Wonders". Together with Shen Zhou, he founded the "Wu School", and together with Shen Zhou, Tang Bohu, and Qiu Ying, they were collectively known as the "Four Schools of the Ming Dynasty" ("Four Schools of Wu Clan").
Wen Zhengming's first calligraphy teacher was Li Yingzhen, and later he extensively studied the famous calligraphy of previous generations. He had various attainments in seal script, official script, regular script, running script, and cursive script. He is especially good at running script and small regular script. He is gentle and vigorous, rigorous in law and vivid in mood. Although it is not powerful and powerful, it has the style of Jin and Tang calligraphy. Small regular script is known as "the best in Ming Dynasty".
Wen Zhengming's calligraphy "Volume of Miscellaneous Poems" is a typical cursive style, with fluent writing and warm fire, showing a gentle and elegant atmosphere.
In this volume, Wen Zhengming records ten poems written by himself. The writing is rigorous, beautiful and vigorous, which is the calligraphy style that was common in his middle and later years. The emergence of fine calligraphers and painters has many internal and external factors. The wind and sun are smooth, the desks are clear and clean, the pen and inkstone are excellent, and there is no vulgarity all day long, which are external factors; the body is healthy, the mood is relaxed, and the creative desire is strong, which are internal factors.
The postscript at the end of this volume says: "The long rain and the new weather make the mood feel refreshed. Burning incense and making tea is also a happy thing in the world. When encountering "good paper", Wen Zhengming naturally writes according to his heart, without doubts in his mind, and his essence comes out. Say it It is by no means an exaggeration to say that it is a first-class masterpiece among Wen's calligraphy.
Wen Zhengming (1470-1559), also known as Zhengming. At the age of 42, he started to use the character Xing and changed his character to Zhengzhong. Because he was born in Hengshan, he was named "Hengshan Jushi" and was known as "Wenhengshan" in the world. He was Han nationality and a native of Suzhou. A famous painter, calligrapher and writer in the Ming Dynasty.
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