Zhao Lifan: Ancient art has its own feelings

Economic Vision Network, December 23 (Gale) Zhao Lifan, born in Yaowan, an ancient town in Jiangsu Province with a thousand-year history and culture, on the banks of the Grand Canal. At an early age, he entered a private school, where he studied under mr. Meng Zhaorong and read the poetry of Kong Meng. He has successively served as the president of the Academy of Calligraphy and Painting of CCTV, the fourth director of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, the executive director of the Chinese Poetry Society, the consultant of the Heshan Painting Society of the China Artists Association, the director of the Chinese Culture Promotion Association, the member of the Art Evaluation Committee of the Ministry of Culture, the vice president of the National Association of Presidents of calligraphy and painting academies, the director of the China Folk Writers Association, the consultant of the Calligraphy and Painting Institute of the China Television Artists Association, the vice president of the Beijing Century Celebrity Calligraphy and Painting Institute, the senior consultant of the Beijing Municipal Education Examination Guidance Center and the National Calligraphy and Painting Advanced Training Class of the Peking University Calligraphy and Painting Association. Honorary Professor of Beijing Second Chinese College and Institute of Landscape Painting of Chinese Culture University. He is currently the president of CCTV International Academy of Painting.

The art of Chinese calligraphy has lasted for two thousand years, from the early tools of writing, sublimated to culture and art, which has been realized through the efforts and creations of generations of people.

The realm of calligraphy is an important aesthetic category of calligraphy aesthetics. Mr. Lifan and I have spent more than 50 years together, from ink pond cultivator to artistic creation, and we know the difficulty of calligraphy art. From Mr. Lifan's calligraphy creation, he knows that the high degree of combination of his skill, personality and academic realm as a calligrapher can truly show the realm connotation of calligraphy art. The Qing Dynasty scholar Wang Guowei once said that those who become great undertakings and university inquirers in ancient times must go through three realms, that is, the skill of art, the character of being a person, and the cultivation of culture. I think that Mr. Lifan's pursuit has reached a certain artistic realm. He has a certain degree of achievement in the art of calligraphy, and his personal cultivation and cultural understanding have also reached a higher level. Li Fan has been honed by tong zi gong and has received special cultural education. From calligraphy to calligraphy to cursive writing, his works Shen Yun fully demonstrate his understanding and skillful skill in calligraphy. What is even more valuable is that his literary and cultural cultivation in the art of calligraphy is reflected. This is also fully reflected in his poetry creation and Chinese painting creation. Most of his calligraphy works take the creation of personal poetry as the main body, and apply the art of calligraphy to literature, reflecting the cultural and philosophical realm of calligraphy art, which is the great wisdom and great cultivation of the author. Therefore, his calligraphy art is not the beauty of the world, but the beauty of the birth, the great beauty, the beauty of nature. His works mostly express his personal feelings by singing praises to the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.