过去的一百年,书法有发展,但在整个艺术格局中,它已失去了领先的地位。当欧风美雨催生的新艺术争先恐后上场时,书法界相对沉寂。大概因为是土特产,当洋货准洋货成为时髦时,书法因为“土”而不被看重。有几件事是值得一提的。一是20世纪初有人要废除汉字,书法以汉字为表现媒介,如废除了汉字,何谈书法?二是20世纪中叶,有人明确讲书法不是艺术,要把书法排除在艺术之 Calligraphy has developed over the past 100 years, but it has lost its leading position in the entire art landscape. When the European art of the new art spawned by the American rain rushed to play, the calligraphy community is relatively quiet. Probably because it is a native product, when foreign goods become fashionable foreign goods, calligraphy because of “soil” and not be valued. There are several things that are worth mentioning. First, someone wanted to abolish Chinese characters at the beginning of the 20th century. Calligraphy used Chinese characters as medium of expression. If Chinese characters were abolished, why talk about calligraphy? Second, in the middle of the 20th century, it was explicitly stated that calligraphy was not an art and that calligraphy should be excluded from art