Appreciation of the pictures of Baihe's calligraphy works:
Photo of crane calligraphy works 1
Figure 2 Crane calligraphy works
Figure 3 Crane calligraphy works
The history of seal cutting in China;
In the history of seal cutting, Deng is a pioneer who combines truth, grass, official script and seal script. Influenced by Cheng Xiang, his seal cutting was imitated by Huizhou School in the early days. At first, he entered the seal script with the small seal script, and later joined the seal script of Shi Guwen and Hanbei, which opened up a new way of printing outside India. Because Deng is an Anhui, his seal cutting is called Anhui School, also known as Deng School. Many seal engravers in the late Qing Dynasty were influenced by it, such as Wu Xizai, Xu Sangeng and Huang Shiling. Among them, Wu Xizai is the one who can best convey the mantle of Deng School. His seal cutting and knife cutting are vivid and free, which fully shows the brushwork and has the skillful skills of holding a pen like a knife. Later, many people who studied Deng started with Wu Xizai's seal cutting. Seal cutting in the late Qing Dynasty was mostly shrouded by Zhejiang and Anhui schools, which was not new. Only Zhao, Xu Lun, Wu Changshuo and several talented seal engravers creatively made the printing altar in the late Qing Dynasty present a vibrant situation. Zhao has profound attainments in calligraphy and painting, and has been in and out of Zhejiang and Anhui seal cutting schools for many times. He not only borrowed from Qin and Han seal cutting, but also put inscriptions into seal cutting, forming a variety of styles of his seal cutting. His white printing is dignified, Zhu's printing is colorful, and the knife and stone can show pen and ink interest. His carving style is also unique, and finally established the style of Zhao School. Wu Changshuo was a great artist in the late Qing Dynasty. He has profound attainments in poetry, calligraphy and printing. His seal cutting began with Zhejiang School and Huizhou School, and he got Deng and Wu Xizai from the law. Later, he devoted himself to seal cutting in Qin and Han Dynasties, seal mud and ancient Wen Tao, and incorporated Shi Guwen's brushwork into seal cutting. Good at punching with a blunt knife and punching with a knife. His seal cutting has a vigorous and simple beauty, and is honored as Wu Pai by later generations, which has a great influence on the domestic and Japanese printing circles. There are many descendants of this school, among which Huang Shiling, Shi Zhaohe and Chen Shiceng are outstanding. Huang Shiling's composition is unique, bizarre and interesting; Knives are also vigorous and magnificent, and seal cutting is often unadorned, and fragmentation is not advocated. His seal cutting is simple and clumsy, and it has sprung up in the printing industry in the late Qing Dynasty. Because he lived in Guangzhou for the longest time, he had the greatest influence on Lingnan seal engravers. Some people call Huang Shiling seal cutting the Zhishan School. While continuing to create the development path of seal cutting genre art, modern seal carvers learn from the excellent national artistic traditions, break through the seal cutting norms in Qin and Han Dynasties, Ming and Qing Dynasties, be brave in innovation and keep exploring, thus opening a new page in modern seal cutting.