The inscription and seal are an important part of Chinese painting and the finishing touch. If it is so important, what about the inscription and seal? Its techniques are detailed below and are for your reference only.
Chinese painting is a comprehensive art of poetry, books, paintings and printing. In the composition, it is not only necessary to arrange the position of the object of the picture, but also to take into account the relevant titles and the parts of the seal.
"Title" refers to poems and poems written on the screen related to the content of the theme. "Paragraph" refers to the author's signature (single paragraph) on the screen and the name of the grantee with the inscription. (Double paragraph) "Seal" refers to the author's "name seal" or "idle seal" stamped on the screen.
Before the Tang Dynasty, traditional mainland paintings originally had no title, and the author sometimes signed it, but also wrote it in a remote place of the picture in very small handwriting, or even written on the back of the paper, so as not to affect the composition effect.
Later, in the Song Dynasty, Su Shi, Wen Tong, Mi Fu and other painters, because of their long calligraphy and painting, often added inscriptions to the blank space of the picture. The content of the inscription is mostly the author's own improvised poems, or notes. Poetry, pictorial meaning, calligraphy, and contrast with each other became interesting, and later became popular along the way, and the seal gradually appeared on the screen along with calligraphy, so it became some organic part of the composition.
Rice" ("Mountain Qingju On Painting") Qing Qiandu in the "Songju Painting Memories", also introduced the derivation of the title. He said: "The Tang people only hide the roots and stone gaps in small characters, about the book is not worked, more than the back of the paper, until the beginning of the Song Dynasty, there are years and months, but it is like a thin line, no book two lines." However, the Dongtang section is all in large lines, or there are three or five lines of the Sayings, and the People of the New Century have been able to open the yuan. The purpose of undertaking is like an ancient style, to the cloud forest, not alone, but also poetry, often more than a hundred words.
Meta-artificial books, although invading the painting bit, feel its elegance. Ming Zhiwen Shen JieZong Yuan Ren Yi Also". The title is not only to fill in the blanks on the screen, but more importantly, it can not only be related to the object of the picture, the virtual reality, weigh and cooperate, but also play the role of "finishing touch". As Fang Xuan said: "High feelings and easy thinking, insufficient painting, titled to hair.". ("On the Painting of Mountain Tranquility").
The form of the inscription should be uniformly decided according to the chapter conception of the theme content. It can be written into a "long title" with more words, and there are treks after the poems, and there are paragraphs after the poems, which are sprinkled with foreign splendor and vivid. You can also simply write only the previous year, signature, or only write the signature, called "poor money", in order to retain the blank space that the picture should be, but the title is the question, and the question is not inevitable, so as not to "draw the snake to add enough".
Qing, Zou Yigui's "Xiaoshan Painting Spectrum" has a paragraph on the method of paragraph title, which can be used for reference: "The painting has a certain place to fall, and if it is lost, there is a wound painting bureau, or there is a title, or untitled, the number of lines is long or short, or double or single, or horizontal or straight, the upper should be flat, the lower may wish to be uneven, the so-called "head is not aligned" also. If there is a place to be written, it can only be lifted flat, or empty. It is also appropriate to do it, italics, the inscription is slightly larger, and the words such as the year and month are slightly hurt by the painting bureau."
The calligraphy of the title must be commensurate with the style of painting, and the brush strokes should be used in letters, and the freehand paintings should be written in line or cursive to feel harmonious. For example, there are heavy colorful flowers and birds, and the inscription uses the "thin golden book" created by Zhao Yi of the Song Dynasty, just to make the calligraphy and painting brushwork consistent, and the work has elegant connotations. Therefore, calligraphy and painting inscriptions and seals are very important, which can make the works icing on the cake and be radiant!