Text / Zhang Kunshan (director of Chinese Calligraphers Association,
national level artist)
Young calligrapher Xu Peibo firmly grasp the pulse of the times, pays
attention to the trend of the calligraphy, understanding the thought in art, it
is inseparable with the organic combination between intelligent wisdom and
sharpen hard, from his works, which is followed by a successful path of
development after thousands of years of history test. He is based on the stone
tablet, made a lot of solid effort on north tablet, Han style and Bronze
inscription, which is the backbone and the spirit.
The
appearance of his works is shown in the study of calligraphy book history. It
has a glimpse of the traces of the masters in the Wei, Jin, Song and Yuan
Dynasties and the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The combination with the tablet and
the post, created the overall pattern of calligraphy creation of Xu Peibo, but
in calligraphy as the main creative direction, and eclectic, fusion
combination, improve the writing style. His cursive origin of the Wei and Jin
Dynasties, and down with the time, the Song Dynasty also made a lot of efforts
on Mifu of Song Dynasty. He tried to combining
Xu Peibo | Northern Song Dynasty- Su Shi "Huangzhou cold food placard"
| running script | circle fan | copying works
The work flowing of prana, black and white, pitching a few confused with
errors and omission, let the rhythm natural and harmony, . Pay attention to the
performance of the literati wind bookish, strengthen and restrict our book wind
to state with its good understanding and popular cultural personality. And
influenced by the Jin Dynasty, the casual and elegant
bearing, full of talent, almost like a quality suggestive of poetry or
painting nourish him, thus revealed from his works reflecting the inner world,
not difficult to glimpse into his spiritual connotation closte to two wang,
Song and Yuan Dynasty’s calligraphy style. He started some complicated masters’
style out a suitable creation technique and paths for his own accomplishment, he
put the coordinate positioning in the fresh, elegant, relaxed, still rhyme,
give us with beautiful and natural vision.
Since the Chinese characters for calligraphy shape material, the same is a
text of the art, the art of calligraphy carving seal as the premise; Peibo
often put the calligraphy style printed into the seal cutting, the seal is fresh,
ethereal euphemism. Each line of the lift and press cadence, every turning lap
joint intentions of writing, which reflects the good ink charm. The formation
of painting ideas make Peibo has great originality to deal with the picture,
his painting composition rich indirect application into seal creation, the
printing surface treatment as a "pattern" to design, bold point, line
and surface combined composition, supplemented by the radius of curved
straight, elements of the length and thickness, so a good solution to the word
"print", with strong characteristics of the times! I have a lot of
praise for his ability to integrate.
Xu Peibo | Tang Dynasty- Lu Jianzhi "Wen Fu" | running and
regular script | copying works
Xu Peibo study direction is more, it is gratifying, he is in the art of all
rivers run into sea, throughput wild realm of thought,
I think he should continue to go along the wide road, continuous large format
will capture the essence of the ancients for himself, and then select the
finest from a vast quantity, enrich and strengthen this is the most suitable
for its own characteristics and style of calligraphy. Historically, as long as
there is a thick accumulation and a correct way of learning calligraphy based
on tradition, there is no doubt that the style and quality of its works are
improving. Although Xu Peibo’s calligraphy works also underdeveloped,
still adjusting in learning and progress, have not yet
entered the ideal state, but due to his young, diligent, and correct the study
way, his works will continue to be updated to improve the level and sublimation
faster.