On the afternoon of January 28, 2018, the 2018 Annual Exhibition of Art Granary "Unsealing - Cheng Fengzi of contemporary seal engraving nomination exhibition" was grandly opened. This exhibition presents nearly 100 square seal engraving works created by the artist Mr. Cheng Fengzi in recent years, seal engraving prints and side rubbings.
Seal engraving not only emphasizes the brushwork and structure of Chinese calligraphy, but also highlights the free and smooth artistic expression in engraving, and exerts skills and expresses emotions in every inch, which is deeply loved by Chinese literati and ordinary people.
Artist Cheng Fengzi believes that throughout Chinese painting and calligraphy, none of them have surpassed their predecessors, but the seal engraving has greatly surpassed their predecessors. The reason is that before the Qing Dynasty, it was difficult for ancient seal carvers to see ancient scripts such as gold scripts and oracle bones, and some ancient characters were basically unearthed after the Qing Dynasty, and they were basically based on small seals. Modern people are too lucky, the information is complete, the information is developed, you can read a lot of classical literature, there is no reason not to engrave it, unless you are a lazy man. Many famous modern calligraphers are seal engravers, such as Mr. Wang Yong, Mr. Shi Kai, Mr. Han Tianheng, Mr. Liu Yanhu, Mr. Zeng Xiang, etc. Most of the seals of the ancients were practical and had not really risen to the level of pure artistic creation. It is not difficult to engrave, if it is difficult, it is difficult to find no good way to find, and there is a shortcut to find the law. Just like vocal music, there must be scientific vocal methods, skilled techniques, and the road will be fast. Calligraphy, on the other hand, requires a large number of copies of inscriptions, and the more copies there are, the better. Painting is the same as seal engraving, it is not necessary to copy a lot, a little less, experience the things of the ancients. On the basis of copying the ancients, it is also possible to quickly engrave a decent seal. Copy the Chinese seal and feel it.
It is difficult to start without a good method of seal engraving, and the knife method, orthography, border edges, and content in seal engraving are important elements.
Mr. Cheng Fengzi carved the rules in the square circle, the shape and the god, and the nature. He brought many seal script variants into his creation and formed his own open, humble style. And in the stirring of its own experience and historical context, it shows a rich and implicit square inch world.
Foreword to the exhibition
More than ten years ago, when the wind was carved, the vertical and horizontal changes were changing, arbitrarily, making the iron like a pen, and not falling into the trap of the people. Since ancient times, the seals must be based on the Shuowen (說文), or on the basis of the Jinshi Examination, the Eight Bodies of the Book of Qin, the Miao Seal of the Han Dynasty, and the Self-Unity of the Indian Script. The ancient seal is used as a book, the Qin seal is a bird and insect, and the other seal is a small seal. The Chinese seal is in and out of the small seal, cutting the complexity and simplifying, or passing through the subordinate. The number of stamped texts varies, to Han Nai Ding. Later, the adaptations are complicated, the falsehoods are growing day by day, and they have recently melted into each other, and they are unclear. Fengzi is born in harmony with the seal book, observing the coils, playing the knife like mud, and the aura is quite spectacular, which makes the onlookers feel the same essence. Today's seal engraving, or the argument based on words, is better than seeing; Or with the view of grace, the victory lies in Pu Mao; or in the theory of talent, the victory lies in the steepness, the wind rises freely, and can harmonize with the sword methods of the various families, the printing space is wide open, and its strengths, and the divine interest is often outside the families, and it has its own heirloom, the wild yi logo. In addition, the wind is bold, the inner delicate and sensitive knot, like to travel far and hold the knife in the hand, paint the mountains and rivers and the earth, make a transmission everywhere, paint it arbitrarily, and get away with it in nature, the so-called elm, each of which is arbitrary, compared with today's self-booing, it is not the same.
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Tiger Gas 35mm x 45mm Shoushan Stone 2015
The houses comment on the wind
1, the famous artist talks about the wind seal carving witty saying: the entry is on the road, the road is the entry. —— Huang Yonghou
2, fuck! We couldn't get in for half a lifetime, but he came out easily. --Han Yu
Reassuring medicine 53mm x 54mm Liling underglaze porcelain print 2007
3, from the tradition, self-innovation, pen and ink is also good. --Yang Yanwen
4. Simple. Inadvertently, it is quite ingenious. --Wang Yong
Get big 35mm x 35mm Bahrain stone 2016 side section explanation: get big free wind
5, the appearance of the "ugly book", I saw only two people, the wind accounted for one. With a knife like a wild wild horse, the edge is also good. - Shi Kai
6, simple, clumsy, clear. - He Yinghui
Creek Mountain Leisure 50mm x 50mm Shoushan Stone 2010
Side paragraph interpretation: Qing Ren Shan Da Shi Xi Mountain Reclining Tour has a pen less painting more realms far-reaching meaning of the magic
Gengyin Xia Fengzi
7, with the pen as if cut, the line is firm and rigid. - Wo Xinghua
8. Pottery casting melting and cutting is true. The way to control the seal is not to carve a tool, but to carve as a power, and if it is lost in the carving, it is too much to carve. Made in the carving and destroyed in the carving, the pot is the difficulty of knowing the way between carving and not carving. Huai Shang Cheng Fengzi calligraphy and painting seal carving, adhering to the spirit of all natures, believing in mobile travel, gaining its innocence, sincerely trusting its chest, the right sealed manuscript, is the work of the old house of the water side that is not big enough to mark its fashion, and its interest and Dun Ya Rao's wrist to see it, it is still imaginable to see its playing edge. - A pot
Birds and Flowers 40mm x 40mm Shoushan Stone 2012
9, Wang Yong ten people can, Shi Kai, Liu Yanhu can also, as well as Cheng Fengzi, some people say that his paintings and seals are better than words, but I think his calligraphy is the soul of his art. One by one gold for the court
10, Cheng Fengzi carved thick, ups and downs, atmosphere. In general, I think his main kung fu is in calligraphy, seal engraving is a residual matter, is the reflection of his calligraphy on the stone, even if it is a seal on the stone, it is also consistent with his cursive aesthetic on paper, the chapter is consistent, the line is consistent, and the expression method is consistent. --Xu Zhenglian
Mountains spectacular 50mm x 50mm Shoushan stone 2014
11, look at the Cheng Fengzi knife method, first of all, you have to be happy, Bai Wen is particularly victorious. I seemed to hear the crunching sound he made when he carved the stone, without any pretense, boldly going straight in, and inadvertently popping up the "impossible" amazing method. The effort behind this is not difficult to imagine. With the addition of kung fu and talent, this work can stand, just as Su Dongpo said: "The new meaning is in the law, and the magic is in the extravagant." Poetry, calligraphy and painting are all common, and now there are many innovative masters, and the real quality is very rare. I suddenly thought of Mr. Ma Shida and Mr. Zhu Peier in Jiangsu, who had made another way out of them. ——Liu Ergang
12. Art is changing with the times. Looking at the works of Mr. Cheng Fengzi, a famous contemporary seal engraver, his outstanding ingenuity is the line under his knife and his ability to grasp the speed of the eight absurdities. Conveying the divine portrayal, the line is a symbol of the active life, the rich spatial order and movement trajectory formed when pushing the knife, deeply dive into the whirlpool of the author's subject's emotions and the rhythm of life in the objective world, and also subtly convey the contemplation and harmony between man and nature. --Wu Liyang
Strong its bone 50mm x 50mm purple sand 2012
13. It is not easy to unify it while pursuing change. And in the performance of the printing surface, Fengzi is doing a good job, especially the Zhu Wenyin and the large white wenyin I have seen recently, he can be said to be very bold in the blank space and technique of the printing surface, and the exploration is gratifying. - Juppel
14, Cheng Fengzi is luckier than Bai shi, he grew up in the Cultural Revolution, do not have to experience the shackles from tradition that Bai Shi and their generation must experience, the expression on the indian surface is loose and crossed, although there is still a lack of freedom, but the meaning of "shepherd boy sitting on the back of the cow, playing the piccolo" is still ,—— a unique flavor of simplicity. If there is diversity in art, I would like to approve of Cheng Fengzi's choice, not a choice of choice, which is also a road. ——Tang Yinfang
15. I seem to have found the hint of "Ru see the Taoist heart" on the edge of the seal in Fengzi's recent works, that magnificent and messy handwriting, like a wild horse galloping in the wilderness, and I see that the ease and naturalness of his knife is far superior to the pen used in his calligraphy works. It really made me feel incredible, and at the same time I was extremely happy. What I want to say is whether this natural "wild" or "barbaric" style can be transplanted onto the printing surface, and carried out consistently to the end. Let the sophistication and elegance go! There is no shortage of you in the seal carved wind and moon field, and your difference may be here. --Yang Lin
16, the seal of the wind, the most profound impression on me, is his casual, no shirts, no shoes, no trim, there is a sense of unkempt face. Or Zhu or white, not sealed, not subordinate, it seems that the font, knife method, layout are not made of rules, but it has another taste. Compared to the delicacy of the spring flower dance style and the beautiful woman picking needles, it is another way. His seal gives people the feeling of a broken stele, because of its long age, the handwriting is long, the stone surface is mottled, and in addition to the vigor, it adds a little sense of vicissitudes. ——Chen Siyi
17, Fengzi's calligraphy and painting prints, I like his seal the most, it seems to be fragmented but integrated, seemingly stiff but with ease, scattered and concentrated, words are divided and combined, quite a good style for everyone. His seal was first obtained from the hands of han indians, and it is always from modern Qi Baishi and some contemporary famous families, which can be described as the world's heroes under the sword. ——Zhou Xianglin
18, the first important thing in making a seal is the seal law, the second important thing is the sword method, the third important thing is the chapter law, I am very much in favor, the wind has the ability of the above three, success is naturally in the reasonable. I often say: "Looks are easy to achieve, but high-level is difficult to find," and the word "advanced" is probably the most important in Fengzi's works. ——Zeng Xiang
Cheng Fengzi
Cheng Fengzi was born in Fuyang, Anhui. Proficient in Chinese painting, calligraphy and seal engraving. He was taught by Mr. Huang Yonghou and Mr. Yang Yanwen. He was taught vocal music by Mr. Liu Shiming, and is currently an expert member of the Calligraphy and Painting Appraisal Team of the Cultural Relics Appraisal Center of the National Museum of Beijing and a director of the Beijing Printing Society.
He has published books such as "Cheng Fengzi Seal Engraving Collection", "Sexual Spirit Wind Bone - Cheng Fengzi Volume", "Collection of Famous Chinese Painters (Freehand Landscape)- Cheng Fengzi", "Contemporary Yipin Ten Houses - Cheng Fengzi", "Contemporary Calligraphy Ten Houses - Cheng Fengzi" and so on. Mainstream media such as CCTV, Hunan Satellite TV, Shandong Satellite TV, Global Tourism, Calligraphy and Painting Digital Channel, and Inner Mongolia Satellite TV have made in-depth special reports on artists. His works have been published in important newspapers and periodicals such as People's Daily, Fine Arts Daily, Jiangsu Pictorial, Rong Baozhai, Shifang Art, Chinese Calligraphy and Painting, Collector, etc., and have been widely collected by the National Art Museum of China and collectors at home and abroad.
About the art granary
Founded in the seventh year of Ming Yongle, it has a history of more than 600 years.
In the decades of urban development, the surrounding development of Nanxincang has built new buildings including the new Poly Building,
Modern buildings such as Minmetals Building and South Xincang Building have formed its special urban orientation.
In the increasingly prosperous and fashionable modern cityscape, it has established its quaint and quiet precious style.
Art Granary combines its unique cultural concept and opens up the introduction and promotion of pure art,
Planning and exploring the exchanges and cooperation between elite artists and related fields at home and abroad,
Adhering to the responsibility of multi-cultural and artistic education and training.
Standing in the city of Guangsha, walking in the text of the country.