Zeng Haihua, a native of Shuangfeng, Hunan Province, was a post-70 s seal engraver, a stone idiot and a printing enthusiast. Twenty years of holding a knife and carving with one heart. His seal cutting works are unique, which is a typical representative of the new generation seal cutting in China. His works are printed with Qi Baishi's chic and imposing manner, and they are the best among a hundred schools of thought, and finally form their own unique style without modification.
Chinese name: Zeng Haihua
Alias: Shi Ding, Shaoru, Yi Ming, Zhai Hao: Jiusi Hall.
Birthplace: Shuangfeng, Hunan
Date of birth: 1973
Occupation: professional seal engraver and calligrapher
Representative works: seal cutting works
Member 1: Member of China Calligraphers Association.
Member 2: Member of Hunan Calligraphers Association.
Personal data (seal engraver)
Zeng Haihua, a native of Shuangfeng, Hunan Province, was a post-70 s seal engraver, a stone idiot and a printing enthusiast. Twenty years of holding a knife and carving with one heart. His seal cutting works are unique, which is a typical representative of the new generation seal cutting in China. His works are printed with Qi Baishi's chic and imposing manner, and they are the best among a hundred schools of thought, and finally form their own unique style without modification. Wang Hanshan, a famous master of flowers and birds in his hometown, personally guided him and studied calligraphy and painting hard. After that, he was deeply influenced by Qi Baishi, studied under the famous painter Li Li, and specialized in seal cutting. In the past twenty years, I have made an in-depth study of Qin and Han seal, clay seal, tile mud and hundreds of seals, and absorbed the essence of Han general print, Zhao, Zhao, Wu Changshuo, Lai Chusheng and Qi Baishi. Dramatic, characters and knives, magnificent, no family atmosphere. They not only have a strong breath of stone blades, but also have the natural charm of pen and ink. The strokes in the seal are natural and have no similarities. The layout makes the inheritance exquisite, and the density echoes strangely; Cut or cut, or rush or rush, use mud, make good use of sticking, taking, connecting, breaking, incompleteness, emptiness, and letting tactics be the edge. The overall effect is spectacular.
Appreciation of works:
In terms of composition layout, Zeng Haihua advocated breaking the traditional Chinese-Indian Tian Zi Palace style, that is, it was similar to the Chinese-non-Chinese style, emphasizing the static and dynamic form, the deviation and embedding of characters, and the Chinese-Indian composition could be followed everywhere. Font adjustment is reasonable, dare to be sparse and dense, inherit from top to bottom, avoid long and short, and echo the density of red, white and Fiona Fang. When printing Qiu Que Zhai, the word "Qiu" not only echoed the density of words, but also echoed the emptiness of the whole, breaking the traditional uniformity, seemingly spontaneous, but actually carefully arranged.
Calligraphy seal method: in calligraphy seal method, the ancient meaning is emphasized and calligraphy is sought. Antique is that the ancients only wrote six books, which is a thousand miles away. Need to think deeply. Don't fiddle with calligraphy in pursuit of "originality". Innovation needs to consider the significance of calligraphy, but it should be sealed and not pretended to be a wild fox Zen.
Artistic conception and style: the printing style is all-encompassing, or uniform, or fast, or ingenious, or six different books, all of which need the combination of book and meaning, meaning and form, form and method, and method and knife. The prints of "Back to Nature" are based on China and India, with a residual appearance of mud tiles, simple structure, and unique style.
Eccentricity: Zeng Haihua mentioned in On Haihua Seal that the core of eclecticism is never the same, even if you copy an ancient seal, you must never be the same. Its seal cutting structure has a bow and arrow, which attracts but does not send, giving people a strange and undulating interest, while lines pay more attention to the swing of exaggerated linear contours. Judging from the collected works of Mr. Tang Dafu and any word in Qiu Quezhai, no matter Bai Zhu's brushwork and painting are the same, it can be clearly seen from the word "pin" and the three Y-shaped "Zhai" that no matter from the angle, direction, weight, size, mosaic details with other words, flexible and powerful weather, it has formed a strong visual impact and a large line span.
Frame: Zeng Haihua attaches great importance to the use of "frame", which is an important factor to break the rigidity of seal cutting and highlight the artistic conception. To grasp the soul of seal cutting, we must restore the complicated seal cutting and strengthen the legibility of characters according to the principle of Six Books. Clear and concise word potential and flowing lines can make seal cutting unique. He summed up eight strategies for border management: one clean, two links, three links, four disabilities, five concessions, six deficiencies, seven borrowings and eight breaks. Zeng Haihua even borrowed a lot from Han steles and even paper cutting.
Knife method: Knife method must combine knife meaning with pen meaning, and knife method is closely related to printed materials. The seal engraver must master all 13 traditional knife techniques. The nuances of each knife method are very different in style and form. It is best not to use more than four kinds of knives for a seal, and the effect of each combination of the two knives is very different. Innovation: Zeng Haihua seeks innovation and change, and India has made a dozen brief descriptions of innovation, covering all aspects from inheritance to innovation. Interestingly, innovation is illusory. He actually integrated the first six articles and came up with so many innovative theories. It's really hard to get.
Mr Haihua's boldness and prudence are based on his strong life consciousness of Chinese and Indian calligraphy and folk calligraphy. With a wise eye, he realized the fulcrum and support of his artistic feelings from Chinese and Indian calligraphy and folk calligraphy. The natural and innocent beauty and vitality contained in folk calligraphy are obviously not possessed by traditional literati calligraphy, but Mr. Haihua has completed the verification of the essence of art and the expression of free mind in his bones. He adopted a rational way and had the foundation to establish his own creative style. Coupled with spirit, diligence and self-confidence, it is not surprising that he established a mature artistic style in his youth.
Since the new era, with the further liberation of people's minds, the value orientation and aesthetic concept of seal cutting have changed greatly. Widely printing ancient seals and modern folk printing methods has become a new trend of the times, and Mr. Haihua has always been a pioneer, and has achieved fruitful results with his unique aesthetic perspective and excellent creative practice, which has been recognized by the Indian community. He has both theoretical research and creative practice. He has both strategic theoretical vision and creative practice, and the two are combined into one, which undoubtedly becomes a representative of a "scholar-type" seal engraver.
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