If a school of seal engraving wants to stand tall in the forest of art, in addition to having a master who can open the sect, it also needs powerful followers and successors, after Ding Jing created the Zhejiang school of printing, first of all, Jiang Ren as a follower supported the fine cutting knife method pioneered by Ding Jing, the Zhejiang school became a school, about two to three years before Ding Jing's death, and accepted Huang Yi, who was born obsessed with jinshi, as an introductory disciple, And Huang Yi relied on his own aesthetics to put the Han, Wei, and Six Dynasties inscriptions into the print, so that the Zhejiang school's printing style was ancient and clumsy, and added xiongjian interest. After Huang Yi, the Zhejiang sect has erected the seal altar, and in the next three hundred years, the Two Sects of Zhejiang and Hui have stood side by side, and even for most of the time, the Zhejiang sect is the dominant seal of the seal altar.
In short, after Huang Yi, the Zhejiang school printing style is really plump and three-dimensional, and it is truly established and formed.
(Huang Yixiang)
Returning to the truth, we read the seal of Huang Yi again, that is, this side of the "ethyl unitary solution":
(Huang Yi "Ethyl Unitary Solution" and Side Paragraph)
The same as the previous "selling paintings and buying mountains" seal, this square seal is also Huang Yi's "forgetting to make friends" Lu Feilu dive, "Xiao Drink" is his number. This is 1765, Lu Fei in this year "Xie Yuan", is the first place in the township test. Let's look at the side section first:
Yu Weichun, with the second brother Of Xiao Drink Mr. Chu You, was leisurely in the boat, and once took Tang Liuru's poetic engraving of "sell paintings and buy mountains" four characters to give away. Gai Xiao drank the ancient words of poetry, and was wonderful in the six laws, and the wind flowed like a lift, and suddenly passed through the six ru. Today, the first person to ascend the Autumn List of Zhejiang Province, reproduced this four-character print to congratulate him. In the past six, if there is a Nanjing Xieyuan seal, the capital of Yuyi Province is ethyl unitary, and the year is also recorded. On his day, he drank the golden horse of the stone canal, picked up the pen on the top of the pass, and sold paintings to buy mountains, and did not have time to do it. Three days after the qianlong yi unitary weight, Huang Yi, a descendant of Yulin, was recorded in Komatsu Jai.
"Tang Liuru" refers to Tang Yin Tang Bohu, his number is "Liu Ru Jushi", we know that Tang Bohu once had a "Nanjing Xieyuan" seal, the seal is transparent from the negative and proud shore. Huang Yi carved such an inscription to Lu Fei, which is naturally admiration and reverence for Lu Fei.
(Tang Bohu's "Nanjing Xieyuan" seal)
The "Six Laws" refers to the figure painting rules pioneered by the Southern Qi Sheikh, which were later pushed to landscapes, flowers and birds, and gradually became the laws of painting, saying that Lu Fei was "wonderful than the six laws", which praised him as an outstanding painter.
Say the technique of this seal -
In fact, one sentence can be said: "From the Chinese seal, but with the literati elegance." ”
"The Zhejiang school is a characteristic Han seal", which we have emphasized countless times, we can compare Huang Yi's Side Zhu Wenyin with the Han Zhu Wenyin, as shown in the figure:
(Comparison with Chinese Seal)
On the left is the Han seal "Xie Duo Seal Letter", and on the right is Huang Yi's side of the "Ethyl Unitary Solution", at first glance, the shape and god are similar, but in fact, the details are very different:
1, the seal law: the printing Chinese characters, using the Chinese "Miao Seal", but there is an extra "circle" change. Miao Seal is characterized by square uprightness, but Huang Yi's square seal, the text with a circle turn slightly more, such as the outer outline of the lower box of the "unitary" character, and then such as the middle section of the "B" character, which is more than the standard Chinese seal "circle turn", therefore, Huang Yi's square seal, the result of using the circle is to reduce the "square atmosphere" at the same time, increase the literati elegance, of course, but also get rid of the craftsman's unique "craftsmanship".
(Where the circle is used)
2. In terms of chapter law: the chapter law of the Han seal is characterized by "equally divided printing surface, any loose and dense", but Huang Yi's square seal has a fine adjustment of the floor area. In fact, Huang Yi's square seal, not evenly divided printing surface, but according to the density of the text has been fine-tuned, the corresponding "solution" and "unitary" words corresponding to the bevel slightly enlarged the occupation position, although it is only a line of increase, but it reduces the "board lag" caused by "equal division", because excessively average, in fact, is the craftsmanship of craftsmen, artists have always pursued "change".
(Difference between text placeholder and Eifection Line)
Note that this change in placeholder is not only "vertical" but also "horizontal", but if it is not carefully analyzed, it is not easy to find, and the entire printing surface is still upright. Because the changes used by Huang Yi are adjusted according to the dense relationship of the characters: the two words that are relative to the occupied position are the sparsely shaped "B" and "Yuan".