Su Haiqiang/Wen
Reading Mr. Zhu Fujie's seal engraving, the shock is not small. From the perspective of genre history, Mr. Zhu is evaluated according to the three levels of "master, everyone, and famous artist", and he can only be regarded as a big person at best. However, the exquisiteness of its chapters, the elegance of its lines, the exquisite craftsmanship of its sword technique, the essence of its knotted seal, and the purity of its breath are difficult to find those first-class masters in the printing altar today who can match them.
Mr. Zhu Fujie's seal engraving works: Mei Xu Zhu Clan (Part 1), I have no slander among the three people of the first (part 2)
Nowadays, people often say that today's seal engraving exceeds that of any other dynasty in history. Their reason is: Chu Deyi once said: "No matter how you read and learn to write, you always feel that it is not now, but the more refined you are after you cure the seal." The old man of Quyuan, Yu Fan, also knew: "Later affairs are not as good as the ancients, and after the engraving of the seal, people win. The large number of gold and stone cultural relics that could not be seen by predecessors, developed photocopying technology, convenient communication tools, and an unprecedented huge team of seal engraving practitioners have given people today a reason to "surpass any dynasty" of self-confidence.
I thought that Mr. Chu Litang and Mr. Yu Quyuan had deduced from the social atmosphere at that time and people's devotion to the art of reading and writing, and the conclusions they had drawn should be correct. But what the two gentlemen did not expect was that culture would be so degenerate today, and that seal engravers would go so shirtless for fame and fortune...
In the face of various conveniences that are superior to those of the predecessors, contemporary seal engravers are simply suspected of being violent and cruel. Just imagine, who among today's seal engravers can still "immerse themselves in reading Xu Shenshu's book like Mr. Zhu Fujie, and the pictogram will be chewed carefully." Nine thousand three hundred and fifty-three, with a tail belly"? Of course, contemporary seal engravers may play tricks and play forms more than their predecessors, but under the dazzling appearance of those new tricks and new forms, how many souls can be called interesting?
The genres and seals hidden in the Forbidden City can be described as a mixture of fish and dragons
From "Confucius" to buy the book "Forbidden City Collection of Ming and Qing Genre Prints", a little disappointed, a lot of fakes! In particular, the first volume of Wen Peng scrolls, including 96 Pieces of Wen Peng Seal, preliminary judgment, in addition to the two parties for their own use of the seal, the rest of the fake, for example, the following side of the Music Qin Book to eliminate worries, simply clumsy as a cow official seal.
The more I went on, the more amazing it became, and Wu Changshuo, Wu Rangzhi, Qi Baishi and others printed works, not only contained a lot, but also most of them were first-time through the eyes, almost all of which were wonderful. In particular, the following side of the "goose flock grass" white text print, the arrangement crisscrossed, the lines are straight and strong, the instrument is open, wonderful. The side section is displayed as "Yang Weizhen Seal", but this book attributes the seal to Wen Peng's name. But I think that its side style is more in line with Yang Weizhen's artistic thoughts, and it should be Yang Weizhen's handwriting.
Yang Weizhen is a Member of the Yuan Dynasty, although the history of seal engraving has the legend that the Crown of the Yuan Dynasty used flower milk stone to rule the seal, but the entire Yuan Dynasty has no record of the original stone seal left in the world, so the History of Seals will be the Ming Dynasty Wen Peng as the originator of the literati genre. If the white seal of the "Goose Flock Grass Lu" hidden in the Forbidden City is really engraved by Yang Weizhen, then the history of the literati genre will definitely be rewritten, and this seal can be described as precious!
Review: Yu Fanghua