蔡邕书法美学思想的理论价值

蔡邕的书法美学思想,不仅是丰富的深刻的,而且是系统的。如果说他的“书者,散也”的思想,是最早揭示了书法艺术的抒情表现特质和艺术创造主体的心态问题,那么,对书法艺术结构造型“势”及艺术“线条”、“力”的审美表现价值的发现,则使书法艺术超越了“以类象形”再现模拟的思想局限,而走上了概括、抽象、自由创造的道路,这在书法美学发展史上,都具有开山、奠基的理论意义。

The Theoretical Value of Cai Yong's Caligraphic Aesthetics

Cai Yong's thoughts of calligraphic aesthetics are not only colourful and profound,but systematic as well.He has been the first person who reveals,in his thought that "calligraphy is the expression of one's emotions",that the art of caligraphy,which is the embodiment of the state of mind of the artist him/herself,is in essence the expression of human feelings.Morever,his discovery of the aesthetic value of the calligraphic artistic structure "Shi","line" and "Li" exceeds the limit of the idea that calligraphy is the imitation of the outward shapes,and helps to make calligraphic creation more abstrac for the later development of caligraphy theories.