谷文达 乾坤沉浮 谷氏简词碑1号 拓片21-50， 墨、宣纸
谷氏简词（以下称“简词”）是我在九十年代中期开始一直在思考的一件规模较大的“词典”式的艺术作品。在我着手创作的漫长过程中，逐渐产生了一个愿望：“简词”是否同时又是一部可广而用之的“简词典”？
此一愿望产生的原因有三。其一，自八十年代中期我创作了一系列伪、错字以来，一直想做一件与之相背离的文字艺术作品，她既是一件艺术品，亦是使用并可以推广，并在中国语言文字史上没有尝试过的。其二，几千年来，汉语这一世界古老的语言从来未有过“以字为词”。换言之，单一字不构成词，而英语只有词。其三，我正在构思创作的“简词”易认、易懂、易记、易用，可达到不学而通，而只要有小学程度的人皆可运用自如。
中国书法艺术历来皆崇尚繁体字，正草隶篆经历代演化，总结出了一套特殊的美学规范。自新中国诞生以来，文字改革运动推广简化字五十多年来，特别是经历了文化大革命,简体字已广泛普及，唯独繁体字及其美学在书法艺术中的权威性却丝毫未受侵扰。“简词”集简体字的科学性与繁体字的审美性为一体。“简词”或以“合二为一法”将两个简体字合并而成一词，或以“偏旁代字法”将一偏旁作为一字，并与它结合而成词。“简词”易认易用，而由两个简体字合成使得她同时又保留了繁体字的书法艺术美感。
My Statement
By Gu Wenda
I have been thinking over Mr. Gu’s Dictionary of Another Simple Chinese Characters since the middle of 90s and I think it is a large-scale dictionary-like work series. And I produced an idea that it is not merely a dictionary but also a thesaurus. At least I intend to do so.
There are three reasons which lead me to that desire：One, I am desirable to create out of the work series based on wrongly written or mispronounced characters since 80s a new revise sort which is both art pieces and a attempt to promote Chinese character, which have never emerged in the history; Two, I try to transform single Chinese character to form new word as English language；Three, the words I created is simple and easy to be understood, to be remembered and to be used, everyone even he /she is illiterate could understand and master them easily.
Most of Chinese calligraphers prefer traditional Chinese character, or cursive hand, or official script or seal character in a regular criterion of aesthetics. And the 5 decades of promotion of simple Chinese character since the founding of the Republic, it has already become popular among all the Chinese, particularly within the country, yet it seems the character reform movement had made no a little bit impact on calligraphy and traditional characters are still taken as the orthodox. I try to combine two single characters to be a word by using both radicals. So I’d like to say it’s a Chinese character revolution rather than merely calligraphic art of a sort for art enjoyment.
【编辑：姚丹】
