On the evening of April 21, the "Road to Calligraphy - The Fourth China Higher Calligraphy Education Forum and Seal Engraving Special Exhibition" and the seminar "Seal Engraving to Printing" opened at the China Academy of Art. Jointly organized by the China Higher Education Society, the China Academy of Art and the Pinghu Municipal People's Government, the event aims to further promote Mr. Lu Weizhao's artistic spirit and educational philosophy, build a platform for calligraphy education practice and creation display and exchange, and show the construction and educational achievements of calligraphy disciplines in recent years.
Jiang Enlai, Vice President and Secretary General of the China Higher Education Association, Xu Jiang, Vice Chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Vice Chairman of the China Artists Association, and Director of the Academic Committee of the China Academy of Art, Shen Hao, Vice President of the China Academy of Art, Ye Peigui, Vice Chairman of the China Book Association and Professor of Capital Normal University, Li Tong, Vice President of Nanjing Academy of Arts, from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, China Academy of Art, East China Normal University, Shandong Academy of Art, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou Normal University, Zhengzhou University, Shanghai University, Discipline leaders of Harbin Normal University, Lanting Calligraphy Art College, Hebei Academy of Fine Arts and other colleges, teachers and responsible persons of relevant teaching units and functional departments of Xiling Printing Society, Zhejiang Calligraphers Association and China Academy of Art, as well as Song Yiling, vice mayor of Pinghu City, Lu Zhaohui and Lu Zhaohuai, relatives of Mr. Lu Weizhao, Ma Baojin, president of Lu Weizhao Calligraphy and Painting Institute, representatives of authors selected for the event papers and exhibitions, and media guests attended the opening ceremony.
Jiang Enlai, vice president and secretary general of the China Higher Education Association, delivered a speech
Jiang Enlai pointed out that China's excellent traditional culture is the outstanding advantage of the Chinese nation and the foundation for standing firm in the turmoil of world culture, and doing a good job in the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese traditional culture is the only way to establish cultural self-confidence. More than 200 colleges and universities and thousands of teachers and students actively participated in this event, with the "great power of the country" in mind, upholding the "heart of the people", and closely linking their artistic pursuits with the cause of the party and the people. He stressed that the society will play a good role as a bridge, build a platform for academic exchanges on calligraphy and seal carving, unite calligraphy and seal engraving educators in colleges and universities across the country, carry out calligraphy and seal engraving education, research, creation, exchange and promotion, and further improve and enhance the construction of the calligraphy discipline system, inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and empower the cause of higher calligraphy education in China.
Xu Jiang, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, vice chairman of the China Artists Association, and director of the Academic Committee of the China Academy of Art, delivered a speech
Xu Jiang made a speech on the theme of "seal carving with mountains and rivers", he pointed out that the art of seal engraving is not only engraving, but also presents unique imagery with arrangement, simple and profound, falling from the atmosphere straight down the mountains and rivers. The core of seal engraving lies in epigraphy and paleography, which also involves the classics of Confucian simplicity, highlighting the high-end status of Chinese scholarship, so seal engraving itself also has the strength of mountains and rivers. The forum elevated seal engraving to printing, sublimated from art to learning, improved scale, and broadened horizons, highlighting the trend of seal engraving art and Chinese character research in recent years. He took Mr. Lu Weizhao, Mr. Zhu Lesan and other masters as examples, and inspired scholars not only to do a good job in sorting out traditional Chinese studies, to carry out knowledge reserves such as epigraphy and paleography, but also to strengthen the study of methodology, to do a good job in the basic problems of seal engraving techniques, and to enrich the core and scholarship of seal engraving and printing.
Shen Hao, vice president of the China Academy of Art, delivered a speech
Shen Hao pointed out that the theme of this forum is "From Seal Engraving to Printing", which is to connect the responsibility of history with the current situation. The study of printing involves various aspects of writing, documents, history, archaeology, institutions, officials and art history, and has rich interdisciplinary academic connotations. Under the background that calligraphy is expected to be upgraded to a first-level discipline, how to expand the level of disciplines, excavate the depth of disciplines, and enrich the connotation of disciplines is the primary task of teaching and research at present. He hopes to discover and solve problems through this exhibition and forum exchange, push the research of printing science to a more systematic and disciplinary height, and realize the perfect combination of visual arts and cultural scholarship.
At the opening ceremony, Zhang Jie, Song Yiling, Lu Zhaohui, etc. delivered speeches on behalf of the organizers and the relatives of Mr. Lu Weizhao. In their speeches, they reviewed and summarized the successful experience of the previous three "Calligraphy Roads" and put forward many new views and measures on the new situation that the current discipline of calligraphy will be included in the construction of first-level disciplines.
Guests from colleges and universities across the country discussed the works included in this seal engraving exhibition and the theme of "from seal engraving to printing", involving the creative phenomenon of the current seal engraving industry, the current situation and future development of higher seal engraving education, the problems faced by seal engraving after upgrading calligraphy to a first-class discipline, how to better promote the seal engraving culture in the new era and the continuity and leadership of the series of exhibitions held on the road of calligraphy.
Shen Leping, Vice Dean of the School of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy art at the China Academy of Art, presided over the opening ceremony