Cheng Haojie, medium-sized, thick and simple, a pair of eyes shining brightly, with the spirit of an artist. He is a member of the Henan Calligraphers Association, the secretary general of the Changyuan City Seal Engraving Institute, the director of the Changyuan Calligraphers Association, the director of the Changyuan City Cultural Center Youth Calligraphy and Painting Society, and the director of the Changyuan City Hard Pen Calligraphy Association. His works have won many awards in provincial and county calligraphy competitions, and have been exhibited in the Henan Provincial Mass Book Fair for three consecutive years. He is a well-known and promising young calligrapher and seal engraver in Changyuan City.
Seal engraving is an ancient art, paying attention to the knife as a pen, carving the weather between the inches, but also carving the spirit. The combination of knife and stone, book and carving shows the unique beauty of seal carving. As one of the essences of the country, the art of seal engraving has undergone a long process of development and formed a long tradition that is consistent and thick. Its fusion of thousands of weather in the square inches, to the generations of literati inkers loved, or self-seal self-use, or gifts to literary friends, plutonium note drop, watch and play, you can get endless aesthetic pleasure and artistic enjoyment.
A good seal must be "playable". And "playable" things should not only be beautiful, but also have a "smell". Painting seeks "vivid rhyme", while printing implements "qi" and "rhyme" on "taste". Specifically, in the two processes of sealing and engraving, we appreciate one party seal, we don't care whether it is an idle seal or an official seal, we don't care whether it is an Auspicious seal or a Jianzang seal, the key lies in calligraphy, knife method, and chapter law. In a nutshell, to appreciate seal engraving works, chapter method is the key, calligraphy is the foundation, and knife method is skill. Excellent seal engraving works, first of all, give people the visual impression that the chapter method is the distribution of vermilion and white, and the text structure is consistent with the meaning of the entire Indian script. From it, the author's aesthetic and creative talents can be reflected, and the artistic qualities and understanding of seal engravers also jump in.
Cheng Haojie loves Hanyu seal carving, his seal, the layout is sparse, full of ancient meaning, melting and bold in delicacy, seeing the law and sparseness, both the roughness of the Han seal and the slim show of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the knife and pen are sharp, the pen is sent, there is a faint sound of gold and stone, with a clean and elegant style, good repair and beauty. The book enters from the printing, while obsessed with seal printing, he also insists on calligraphy creation, xi seal book (Linxi "Han Dynasty Yuan An Stele", Shi Guwen, Deng Shiru, etc.), Lishu (Linxi "Yi Ying Stele", "Cao Quan Stele", Yi Bingshou, etc.), providing a steady stream of nourishment for his seal carving, allowing him to step into the right path at the beginning, with unique ingenuity and calmness. His words are clean and free, exuding a light atmosphere, and there is nothing that can be done without a pure heart. This is also rare in the impetuous moment.
Among the seals, he was the only one who liked the Han Jade Seal, and he worked hard the most and used the deepest force. Hanyu seal is an extremely precious variety in ancient seals, and the artistic style of qinggang elegance and good repair beauty that it shows is also the most elegant style in the art of seal engraving. The artistic charm of Hanyu seal engraving is both rigorous and interesting. Each category takes into account different stylistic levels, and even under the same stylistic level, there are subtle changes.
In his study, he strives to reflect the "original ecology" of ancient jade seal carving, not only to find the law, but also to be good at discovering the richness of meaning and rhyme, and to grasp the changing and unexplainable realm of the gods in the seal carving tradition. In his practice, he insisted on advanced order. Pluralism is a classification of styles, while progression is difficult to arrange.
For example, in the Han seal, the study is arranged in turn according to the order of the four-character Han official seal, the private seal, the jade seal, the multi-character seal, the general seal, the bird and insect seal, etc. In the school of famous seals, the regular work is also placed in the front, and the strange and dangerous is placed in the back. This is conducive to moving from easy to difficult in learning and techniques, step by step, and accumulating inches. In the process of study, we should discover, realize, and fully grasp the difficulty of the Han jade seal technique, so as to achieve the realm of one day and one day.
Artistic creation not only requires talent, but also the diligent study of the day after tomorrow. Cheng Haojie has a rigorous creative attitude, has a sense of reverence for art, and each party's works are painstakingly lonely, dismal management, and never perfunctory. He insists on creating with heart and affection, convinced that only works full of feelings can embody the subtle and spiritual place of "printing with books", so as to truly achieve the realm of "ingenuity is unique and calm out", his print layout is decent, delicate and feminine, the layout is harmonious, giving people a pleasing feeling, the knife method is relaxed, both smart and bold, the brushwork is calm, the whole layout is virtual and real, and it is quite intriguing beauty.
In terms of artistic creation, Cheng Haojie is in his prime, and he is experienced and skilled, and he will certainly be able to make a greater breakthrough on the road of seal art. (Wang Ziliang)