The solutions to calligraphy creation’s skills and spirit

Calligraphy creation needs to solve the relationship between "skill" and "spirit"， and this is a special and comprehensive creation category in artistic creation system. The ancients have a lot of creation about book comments， but these achievements haven’t formed a complete system. The contemporary also hold different views about them and only care about firming themselves’ standing. The ancients have done a lot of work in penetrating elaboration in details， experience， intuition and even skills and spirit of calligraphic creation. The ways to combine the ancient experience with the practice and exploration of contemporary calligraphic creation are indispensable for a large number of calligraphy lovers， vocational middle school and junior college students majoring in calligraphy. The newly-publishing named “Introductory Theory of Calligraphy Creation” written by Ni Wendong is a perfect book introducing from practice and theory two aspects in this field.

In the current creation， calligraphers usually equal their feelings to experience， which often confuse green hands and calligraphic lovers. This book uses a kind of simple， practical， strictly attitude in illustrating numerous factors of calligraphic creation. It can be divided into five chapters， each one focuses on one unique aspect. But they are correlative as a whole. In the chapter creation’s connotation， principle and methods， the author emphasize the importance of setting up the creative consciousness and cultural connotation， the acquaintance of calligraphic style and creation steps， especially stressing in the fact that cultural cultivation is the core of calligraphy art. From imagination and association point of view， intended and unintended， self existence and selfless， skills and perception four aspects， combining practical experience of ancient and modern， the author elaborate his view in depth. The author has basically thought all the questions a calligrapher may encounter， and put forward his solutions to each corresponding question. For calligraphy creation’s procedures and training， the author comes to a conclusion that reading and learning is better than practice blindly only， through coordinating the context and shaping and analyzing the unity of universality and individuality. Reading extensively and digesting them in a comprehensive manner is the right way to calligraphy creation. And they are attainments of psychological combining ration， emotion and acknowledgement.

Since the contemporary calligraphy is divorced from daily writing， it has been developed as a kind of pure unique ethical art， and penetrated into our spiritual life gradually. The understanding， appreciation and collection and even creation are indispensable topic in the art field. On the one hand， the passion of the ordinary calligraphy lovers in participating in calligraphy creation are more and more high； on the other hand， it proposes a much higher requirement for calligraphic lovers in artistic vision， judging standard， value orientation， and creation of depth.

It hopes us can add up much art value and culture value in calligraphy creation. We all believe that calligraphy could be an important context in examining our spiritual dimension as well as Chinese literature and painting. In view of there are so many misleading and deviating theories from the original creation direction， this book could play a leading role against this backdrop.

This book is plain in tongue， and the author also won’t put on airs. The style he chooses is giving systematic guidance to the readers from the easy to the difficult ones. The author pursues pragmatic style， elaborates each question thoroughly and makes creation and relative questions clearly. And this book should be the right example.