Judging from experience, Zhang Yibing has been engaged in many occupations. With this experience, there will be extraordinary gains. Experience is experience, and experience is accumulation. I have done propaganda in cultural stations, worked as a teacher in middle schools, studied philosophy and art in universities, engaged in painting and calligraphy editing and calligraphy literature sorting in society, and carved the series of "Spring Flower Pavilion Posts". He also works as a gallery manager in business.
In traditional culture, he dabbled extensively in ancient Chinese characters and poems, and Tibetan poems were readily available, so his proficiency in ancient Chinese characters was well known. As for calligraphy, he was influenced by his father since he was a child, and then he studied calligraphy in Tang and Song Dynasties, which showed his level and talent more and more. He has traveled all over the country, from east to west, from north to south, and from China. In the art world, at his age, it is rare to have such experience and such a level.
In the Song Dynasty, Lin Bu lived in seclusion in the lonely mountain of West Lake, growing plums and raising cranes, and never married. People call him "Mei Wife Crane". Zhang Yibing only has calligraphy, and everything else is for calligraphy. In other words, most of his spare time is devoted to research and exploration around the core of calligraphy. The fifth volume of "Liang Shaoren's Essay on Two Kinds of Autumn Rain Temples in Qing Dynasty" says: "The inscription on glasses says:' I can learn from thousands of books and take the Wan Li Road, and I can get help from it." "Reading is a supplement to theory, and the way to go is to strengthen practice. Theory and practice complement each other. The ancients regarded "reading thousands of books and walking Wan Li Road" as a pursuit, because it can broaden people's horizons and increase their knowledge and ability. The evolution of human beings began with walking upright, and the purpose of walking upright is to get more things you need. Zhang Yibing's calligraphy learning has made the ancients "read thousands of books and walk Wan Li Road". Over the years, he has been reading, writing poems, traveling, making friends and writing.
Zhang Yibing once spent a whole year reading the first and second volumes of Ci Hai word for word. When someone asks how to pronounce a little-known new word, he can not only tell others how to pronounce it, but also tell them what it means, where it comes from and what the allusions are. Some words, he can even tell others from which pages of Ci Hai. I know that Professor Chen Chuanxi and Dr. Liu Mo could reach this level when they were young, but not many people can reach this level now.
Zhang Yibing's works (see photo), which won the second prize of the third China Lanting Calligraphy Award, gave birth to the "all-sitting post" of the Huanggu, full of strength and posture. The handling of points, lines and blocks is very harmonious and appropriate, and the words are magnificent and magnificent. The brushwork is graceful and elegant, full of Zen, and the actual treatment of stippling is very clever.
China's calligraphy pays attention to "the combination of emotion and paper", expresses the inner rhythm with brushwork, and depicts the state of matter, natural taste and feelings in life. "The book, the heart painting also." The slightest tremor can be expressed on paper. This award-winning work has a distinct personality, strives for innovation and presents a familiar special effect. Its composition is good at interspersed and embodied; Its thin and hard lines make it possible to win by surprise when turning vertically and horizontally; His pen is both rigid and flexible, and the length of stippling is complementary.
Dong Qichang believes that calligraphy needs to be "mature". "Life" is not strange, but a novel effect of strangeness. Brecht, a famous German dramatist in the 20th century, put forward that drama should have a "defamiliarization effect", that is, when the audience appreciates the drama, they will have a little strange knowledge and feeling about the object, thus better enhancing the attraction and making the plot of the drama more intriguing. It is on the basis of profound knowledge that Zhang Yibing's calligraphy has created an "unfamiliar effect" through various changes such as stippling, structure and composition. Western landscape designers like to trim the lawn very smoothly, which makes people take in everything in a glance. China's calligraphy, like China's gardens, is full of novelty, which makes people never tire of reading it. This is the effect of "being born with familiarity"-writing "being born" on the basis of mastering high skills.
Zhang Yibing's works are full of brushstrokes, magnificent and unique in handwriting, such as runaway wild horses. Its paper is full of running water, its body is moved and its handwriting is tilted to one side. But the stippling is thoughtful and complete, and the words are unified. The whole article gives people an air of Apollo, full of unruly life tension. It can be clearly seen that the resolute and vigorous spirit in the works is exactly the calligraphy connotation that the author wants to express.