在当代水墨画和现代书法的创作领域里,阎秉会称得上是一位“双管齐下”的老将了(这里的“老”与他本人的年龄无关)。从1985年起步,同时涉足于这两个领域的创作探索,迄今已走过了整整十个年头(几乎与“当代”这个概念同步)。这十年,也许还是他个人生命中最重要的时刻。十年磨剑,甘辛备尝。青春逝矣,却也有惶论成败之感。个中滋昧,自然也留在了他的心底,月已深深埋藏。平时不善言谈的他,总是很少向人表露心迹。他崇尚过程本身的酸刮苫辣,—俟过程完了,便把一切都看得淡而又淡。 这里讨论的是他的水墨画。有关他的现代书法创作,容当另论。然而,讨论他的水墨画,又不能不从他的现代书法谈起。更确切地说,只有书法(包括传统和现代的两个块面)才是他创作生涯的第一生命。 中国书法远比文人画成熟得早。唐、宋以后,文人常常要对“以书入画”津津乐道,由此也就会明白,对文人画而言,是书在前,而画在后。所以要谈文人画的笔墨,就不能不先考察书法用笔(也包括用墨)。早在魏晋六朝,书法就已蔚成大观(至唐为极盛)。当的的谢赫将“骨法用笔’列为“六法”之第二法(通俗一点说、所谓“骨法用笔”就是“骨法”之道在于“用笔”,即以“笔”求“骨”),可见书法用 Yan Bing is called a “two-pronged” veteran in the field of contemporary ink painting and modern calligraphy (“old” here has nothing to do with his own age). From its inception in 1985, the creative exploration into these two fields has so far passed through almost ten years (almost at the same time as the concept of “contemporary”). This decade, perhaps the most important moment in his personal life. Ten years grinding sword, Gan Xin ready to taste. Youth is gone, but there are also feelings of success or failure. Zi Ming Zi, of course, also left in his heart, the moon has been deeply buried. He is usually poor at speaking, and rarely shows his feelings to others. He advocated the acidity of the process itself, - 俟 the process is over, we put everything light and light. The discussion here is his ink painting. About his modern calligraphy creation, to be considered as another. However, discussing his ink painting can not but start from his modern calligraphy. More precisely, only calligraphy (both traditional and modern) is the first life of his creative career. Chinese calligraphy is far more mature than literati painting. After the Tang and Song Dynasties, the literati often relished the book “Calligraphy and Painting”, and from this would understand that for the literati painting, the book was in front of the book and the painting was in the back. Therefore, if we want to talk about the literati paintings, we can not examine the calligraphy pens (including the ink). As early as the Wei and Jin Dynasties, calligraphy has become a spectacle Wei (Tang is extremely prosperous). When the Sheikh’s “bone method pen” is listed as the second method of the “six methods” (to put it plainly, the so-called “bone method pen” means “bone method” lies in “using pen” Bone "), we can see the calligraphy