Seal cutting is a seal art combining calligraphy and seal cutting, which is a unique Chinese character art form in China. It has a long history, extensive and profound, integrating history, literature, philosophy, aesthetics, philology, exegetics, Tibetan studies, calligraphy and seal cutting techniques, and is a "world in a square inch".
Seal cutting and calligraphy are "twin sisters of China art", which are printed by books and by books. Calligraphy and seal cutting complement each other, and seal cutting and calligraphy and painting art are integrated into one, which is full of atmosphere. In 2009, it was selected as "Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity".
Traditionally, seal cutting must be done first, and there is even a saying that "seal cutting is divided into seven parts and seal cutting is divided into three parts". Seal cutting itself is an art closely combined with calligraphy. The basic difference between the work of the seal engraver and the seal engraved by the teacher in the engraving shop is that the former is "writing" and pays attention to rules and seal techniques, while the latter relies on "painting", not counting rules and seal techniques.
Three methods of seal cutting:
1, sealing method
Seal method is the understanding of seal script, in fact, it is the calligraphy of seal character. Ancient seal, ancient seal of big seal, Chinese seal of Miao seal (a kind of seal script with distorted strokes), and useful books of flowers, birds and insects. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, seal script was widely used, and another kind of seal script was called 10-fold seal script, which folded the strokes evenly and filled the printed surface. In modern times, official script, cursive script and regular script were also used in printing.
Step 2 write a composition
Composition is to organize the overall layout according to the different shapes and sizes of printing surfaces and different printing materials. The arrangement and layout of seal script characters is the so-called separation of Zhu and Bu Bai. Seal shows its artistic charm in a small range with a few words, so it requires changeable words, colorful layout and artistry.
3. Knife method
Knife technique, the technique of using a knife immediately, has been called thirteen knife methods by predecessors. In practice, the two methods are mainly cutting and punching. The lines carved by the cutting knife are concise, and the lines carved by the punching knife are smooth.
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