"Tribute to the New Era" Micro-exhibition of famous artists' works - Liu Dianzhong, a famous contemporary artist

Liu Dianzhong, Zi Chu Nan, Yunfu, male, Han ethnicity, born in 1943, Guiyang County, Hunan Province, Huangshaping Subdistrict (formerly Taihe Town), a member of the Communist Party of China, graduated from Guiyang No. 1 Middle School in 1963, retired in 2003, has been a private teacher, public teacher, teaching and research staff of some primary and secondary schools in Guiyang County, principal and vice principal of primary and secondary schools, chairman of the school district trade union and other positions. In 1962, he began to publish small poems, and edited books such as "Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Enigmas", "A Thousand Tigers Contending" (Lantern Riddle Collection), and "Poetry Collection of the New Century". He is a member of the China Association of Calligraphers and Painters, the Chinese Association of Scientific Poets, the Hunan Writers Association, the Folk Writers Association, and the Miscellaneous Literature Society. He is a director of the China Local Writers Association, the Director of the Chinese Contemporary Folk Writers Association, the Honorary President of the Chinese Poetry Development Research Association, the Vice President of the Chinese Poetry Research Institute, the Researcher of the Huaxia Poetry Association Calligraphy and Painting Institute, the Visiting Professor of the National Museum of China Gallery, the Art Steering Committee, and the National First Class Calligrapher. In 2007, it was awarded the highest honor award for lifetime achievement in the creation of traditional Chinese culture. In 2008, he was awarded the honorary title of "Artist of the Republic" by the Chinese Federation of Writers and Artists, and in the same year, he was awarded the honorary title of "Famous Scholar of Chinese Studies" by the Chinese Society. In 2021, he was named a national treasure calligrapher.

His biography has been included in more than 200 kinds, such as Who's Who in the World, Dictionary of Chinese and Foreign Celebrities, Who's Who in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Art, and Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Writers.

The fine book seal rhymes wonderfully into the ancient style of the dragon scale turtle Wen Yang

——Remembering the famous calligrapher Liu Dianzhong

The seal has six bodies, and Liu Dianzhong is good at writing. His seal book is full of beauty, the structure is neutral and beautiful, and the achievement is profound, which has become the beauty of the times that leads the high ancient seal style.

The work "Wonderful Painting with Affection and Good Reading without Words" reflects the unique artistic style of Liu Dianzhong's seal book. The work takes the essence of the fusion of the big seal and the small seal, removes the meaning of the knife and pen that the big seal is too dry, and tames the ink meaning of the small seal that is too delicate, and the two phases are integrated, just soft, soft and firm, the overall perception is not dry, nor feminine, becoming the special texture of Liu Dianzhong's seal book is clear and clean, and the elegant wind is gushing. In addition, the strokes have a unique sense of machine change and movement. As far as horizontal painting is concerned, there are straight and curved. Straight pen tilted to the ground, used to hold steady. For example, the horizontal pen in words such as "good", "none", "book" and so on. The curved brushes reflect each other into the sun and the moon, and the sense of painting is obviously strong. For example, the horizontal pen in the "word", curved up and down correspondence, the combination of birthday brilliance, vivid and pleasing to the eye. Because of its unique temperament, this work was compiled into the "Ancient Kingdom Danqing Picture Scroll" and became an important example of the great achievement of his seal book.

Looking at the self-titled seal book "Ze Yu Run Four Seas East Wind Warm All Things", in order to commemorate the birth of Mao Zedong, the tibetan head poem, the artistic conception is natural and existent, combined with the aesthetic perspective of moderation and beauty, brisk use of the pen, reference to yi ink, square circle blending, forming a very typical seal book since the Qin Dynasty, high ancient fashion, all the time into the eye. Liu Dianzhong's seal book, based on inheritance, is composed of creativity, and the calligraphy conception is combined with standard pen skills, so that the seal book posture has a spring-like breathing temperament. This work was collected by Li Min, a descendant of Mao Zedong.

I also saw a painting of the self-cultivation seal book "Accumulation of Virtue, Good Deeds, Longevity and Many Blessings", which was appreciated in front of his eyes, and was immediately impressed by Liu Dianzhong's extraordinary talent and the ability to pour out the six seals. This work, taking the oracle bone style before the maturity of the Seal Book, reconstructs the turtle text, reproduces the dragon scales, collects the handwriting in the Seal Book, and then leaps and bounds the square and straight knot method of the Seal Book into the Seal Book, so that this work has a clear neutral and gentle aesthetic tendency, and the charm and beauty of the Seal Book is led from a single width to multiple contrasts, resulting in a more diversified seal book beauty element.

Liu Dianzhong is good at using the ancient seal writing to present the flow of modern culture, so that the ancient and modern are compatible, and his seal calligraphy works have a fresh cultural connotation in the old pen and ink form. For example, in the painting "Being a Self-Cultivation and Health", the high antiquity lies in the skillful inheritance of the old rules and regulations. Liu Dianzhong's work is not only ancient and antique, but also integrates the essence of traditional Chinese culture, and the three main themes of Confucianism, Buddhism (Interpretation) and Taoism are written in fifteen characters.

It is a rare motto to rule the heart with Buddha, to rule the body with the Tao, to rule the world with Confucianism, to have profound meanings, to be philosophical, to teach people to be human, to be intriguing, and to be intriguing. The work is in accordance with the dense chapter of the Qin Book Small Seal, the sparse place will be able to go horse, the secret place will never be airtight, the black is ink, and the white is black, the ink and white meet, the ancient meaning is dancing, so that the seal book shows a new radiance. The novelty is that the content of his seal book can always skillfully grasp the hidden cultural needs of modern people's hearts, in a word, although it is not broken, but it is clever to hit people's hearts, showing the beauty of the will, so that people do not feel lightly touched in their hearts, and the heart goes with the seal book, which is very agreeable. Liu Dianzhong seal book, because of the deep research, grasp in place, so can inherit the ancient book new, the seal book pen and structure innovation, the style of writing has a more obvious progressive change, the body change is obvious.

For example, in the "Hundred Dragon Diagram", Liu Dianzhong profoundly excavated and created the complex posture of the seal book from the two angles of cultural research and artistic innovation, and the old style of Qin Seal Ping Zheng Shuhe was transformed into a mysterious and colorful rotational presentation, and the dragon life and hundred forms, the seal book hundreds of styles, and the cultural merits emerged through the "Hundred Dragon Diagram". In addition to being able to write a hundred dragons, Liu Dianzhong can take any word, which can combine his intuitive feelings and deep research on the culture of seal books, lightly read a hundred forms, and the body structure is beautiful.

For example, "Baifu Tu", "Baishou Tu", "Bai Ma Tu", "Bai Hu Tu" and so on, and so on. In addition to having distinct and considerable artistic value, the seal works with a variety of characters also have cultural transmission value, and have become rare treasures in the treasure house of calligraphy art. In addition to his profound achievements in seal calligraphy, Liu Dianzhong's list of works is also very distinctive, the atmosphere is strict, and a cursive book is a list, and the strength is thousands of jun. For example, the list book "Tiger" has a large amount of ink, the list is powerful, shaped like a Lumiao town instrument, the virtual pen has a squeeze, full of ink like a cover, the knot body is in the right, and the awe-inspiring god is mighty!

The fine book rhymes with magic, and the dragon scale turtle is of high antiquity. Liu Dianzhong's calligraphy is based on tradition, but it is not bound by the old fixed trend, changes out of the new, from the three aspects of word posture, penmanship, literary quality, so that the seal book shows a new life form, becoming a new beauty model of the current seal book creation, the influence is gradually strengthening! Admirable.

Artistic Director of Huayi Shuyun Culture and Media

Famous calligraphy and painting critic Shi Feng December 26, 2017