Wei Jie
Deputy Director of the Institute of Calligraphy and Seal Engraving of the National Academy of Painting of China, Researcher, National First-class Artist, Member of the Seal Engraving Professional Committee of the China Book Association, Researcher of the Seal Engraving Art Institute of the China Academy of Arts, Member of Xiling Printing Society, Vice President of Jinghua Printing Society, President of Zhongnan Printing Society.
Freehand print style must have both majestic and lyrical characteristics
At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the academic slogan played by Ding Jing and Jiang Ren was "Qin Han of the Yin Sect", and under their initiative, the Zhejiang school of printing with the Qin and Han seals as the framework and the cutting knife as the basic knife method prevailed, and they flocked to it, and there were Huang Yi, Xi Gang, Chen Yuzhong and other Zhejiang sect descendants. When Deng Shiru was not satisfied with the rigid rules and jagged lines of the Zhejiang School, he put forward the academic concept of "seeking printing outside the printing and printing from the book", so that his works were gentle and smooth, using a knife like a pen, just Jian Wanna, at this time the time has passed nearly fifty years. Later, the rise of Zhao Zhiqian, which was mixed with coins, edict plates, Han mirrors, sealing mud, and even the wei and Jin dynasties, made of stele plates, Zhao said: "Take the law between the Qin Zhao and the Han lantern, and set up a portal for the six hundred years of imitation of the seal family", Zhao Zhiqian did greatly expand the vision of seal carving. When Zhao Zhiqian made a seal of "Ding Wenwei" at the age of thirty, the bold application of his T characters had already sprouted, but the versatile Zhao Zhiqian did not carry it forward, which was Zhao Zhiqian's regret and also the regret of Huang Shiling, because Huang, who followed closely behind, did not notice this magical "Ding" character, and once again missed the opportunity given by history, and went in the opposite direction of the freehand printing style. History is so interesting, but Qi Baishi, who was born in the late Huang Fourteenth year, sensitively carried forward this magical "Ding" and eventually became the manager of the freehand printing style.
Yellow River Song Pottery Seal 6cmx6cm 2021
After five hundred years old Pottery print 5.2cm× 5.2cm 2019
When Wu Changshuo, who looked exactly like a eunuch in the Qing Palace, relied on the stone drum text and waved his arm with amazing boldness, he played the academic slogan of "Ancient Iron Seal Gaohun All the Way", for the seal engraving class, a new era of freehand printing began. Qi Baishi, who followed, also pushed the freehand printing style to a new climax with the style of "the door of the great master", and the seal engravers did not use the "Yinzong Qinhan" as the only method, but faced a broader world. Southern Wu and Northern Qi echoed each other, and their works led the fashion of an era and opened up a new stage of freehand printing.
Painting post-mortem Aota stone 6cmx6cm 2021
Nothing is necessary Lao stone 3.1cm x 3.1cm 2020
After nearly a century, the freehand print style has also been liked by more and more audiences because of its lyrical and extremely tense characteristics, and it is no longer called "Wild Fox Zen", which is the tolerance and need of the times. Due to the many constraints of less than gongwen printing, freehand printing can do whatever it wants to a certain extent, and has more development space and potential than gongwen printing. The word freehand originates from Chinese painting, which says "write God with shapes, and write freehand with Gods", and the same freehand printing should also follow this law. All freehand prints must have both strong and lyrical characteristics, if you deviate from these two characteristics, that is, it has nothing to do with freehand, but xiongqiang is by no means an arbitrary act that is outside the law, and the obstinate and obstinate action will destroy the inheritance value of cultural development. At the same time, the freehand seal should also write the meaning of the heart to express the feelings in the chest, why lyrical? It is to pour the subjective aesthetics and emotional experience of seal carving into their own works, and to use their own unique seal carving language to create excellent works that can move themselves and readers and have the atmosphere of the times. In fact, the title of freehand printing is only available in recent years, and the creation and research of freehand printing has just begun, and more seal engravers have yet to participate, encourage each other to create together, and are eager to have more freehand printing after Wu and Qi.
Lao stone 3.8cmx3.8cm 2021
Sea of Clouds Dragon Bahrain Stone 4.5cm x 4.5cm 2021
Faithful Dan Heart Sleeve Breeze Lao Stone 3.3cmx3.3cm 2021
Zongshang Pottery Balin Stone 3.0cm x 3.0cm 2020
Qi Baishi once expounded the most incisive question of the shape of freehand painting: "It does not seem to be deceitful, too similar is kitsch, and the magic lies between similarity and dissimilarity", and I think the same is true of freehand printing.
Nongwa No Hi 6.0cm x 8.0cm 2019