论启功“透过刀锋看笔锋”的方法论意义

Methodology of Qi Gong's “Seeing through the Style of the Graver to See that of Writing”

启功先生的书学思想,集中体现在论书绝句中。其一以贯之的思想是:无论北碑、唐碑、阁帖,凡学书以刻本为范时均存在一个“透过刀锋看笔锋”的问题。这一观点旨在寻本求真,具有方法论意义。

The calligraphy ideas of Qi Gong are mo stly expressed in his poems about writing,he held co nsistently that there always exists an issue of eeing through the style of the graver to see that of writing i n spite of northern inscriptions,Tang inscriptions and copybook while copying block-printed editions. The a im of this opinion expects to inquire deeply into the es sence of the calligraphy,which has methodological s ignificance.