Zhejiang Seal (II) Seal Cutting Lecture Hall 108

For most seal cutting, even painting and calligraphy lovers, there are often many questions about what is a good work. The aesthetic orientation, especially for us today, is hard to say clearly, so when we introduce seal cutting, we also review the aesthetic orientation of seal cutting in past dynasties and the related background of this aesthetic orientation, hoping to help everyone.

Regarding the boundary section, the Zhejiang seal cutting boundary section we introduced here is really a boundary section with little knowledge. It was only when the Zhejiang School began to pay attention to the border section that more seal engravers focused on the brushwork, especially in Zhao and Wu Changshuo, which improved the brushwork of seal engraving to a position even better than seal.

There should be a basic aesthetic orientation in the creative thinking of seal cutting. These creative thinking activities include the initiation and development process of creative thinking such as feeling things, feeling excitement, deep thinking and meditation. The richness of the boundary part provides first-hand research materials for us to understand the author's creative thinking activities. If the boundary paragraph only records the time, place, purpose, etc. As before, we can't know some of the author's thinking activities when creating.

Seal cutting creation is often a comprehensive and complicated process of arousing "interest" with a kind of "feeling things" and paying attention to the creative environment and atmosphere through meditation and meditation. Its performance is often not limited by space and time, so we can still have our own feelings when we see seal cutting works after a hundred years or a thousand years. This sense of * * * is also extremely important in seal cutting aesthetics. In the process of seal cutting creation, the author's thinking is galloping, images are pouring in, he is absorbed, quietly, and has images on his chest.

Let's take a look at some examples of Ding Jing's seal cutting, and look at creative thinking activities (some examples are too embarrassed to find clear pictures).

The seal of "Yin Fu, the first scene of Wang Peng" created by Ding Jing is as follows:

Jingfu used this stone to ask the old man to seal it. He has been away from his desk for a long time. He did it occasionally today, but in an instant, it was swept away by the strong wind. If you don't see the stone, take the jade chapter as your ear. In May of March, I will give you a souvenir.

And Ding Jing "Guan Xu Hai Yin" printed cloud:

I made these two seals for Xu Xiucai's birthday stone, which made him furious and eager to rush to spring, and instantly became like a strong wind sending a light cloud. Stones were carved by Song people, and tea was played by themselves, so it won't be three years late. In September, Wu Yinqiu, the old man Ding, won the victory and wrote it in the upper left corner.

From the creation process described by these two seals, we can see that the creation process of these two seals is very long, one is "staying for a long time" and the other is "three years late". However, the creation process of seal cutting is very short. "In an instant, the wind is still blowing away." This made Ding Jing feel the interest of "choosing a stone in anger and rushing to the spring in thirst". Interest is not the interest of seal script, but the author's interest in artistic creation in the process of creation, which will develop quickly after a long time. From this, we can see Ding Jing's full brewing in the creative process, which is very similar to the thinking process of "meditating for a thousand years" and "thinking wonderfully and wandering wonderfully" mentioned by Liu Xie in Wen Xin Diao Long. The speed of "quick success and instant benefit" is the inevitable result after the artistic conception is fully brewed.

It didn't mention the reason why "three years late" didn't start work, but turned into "an instant". It's just that we know that the creative impulse of many authors in the process of conception often comes and goes quickly. This creative impulse is generally called "Xing". It is the inspiration in artistic creation that comes suddenly. The source of this inspiration in China's culture and art, whether poetry, painting and calligraphy are almost unspeakable, may come from the natural and environmental atmosphere outside the creative subject or the touch and stimulation of something. Classical aesthetics holds that feeling originates from feeling. The inspiration of seal creation naturally has such a trigger. Deng, a famous seal engraver in the same period, had the same feeling as Ding Jing. He remembered the postscript on the seal, "The new forest supplements the old forest":

In the late autumn of Guimao, Mr. Mei Fu made lithographs, wind, tide, waves and water sounds, and rushed to Jianglou with the sound of playing with a knife. There is nothing in Ouyang Zi's Ode to Autumn Sound, which makes up for this Shi Yun. Ancient Deng Huanyan Ji.

This is a record of great excitement in creation. The feeling and even the sound of his knife are integrated with the wind, tide, waves and sounds around him. A high concentration of spirit can best stimulate creative enthusiasm and create natural works of art.

Let's take a look at the seal of True Water without Fragrance by Ding Jing's disciple Jiang Ren:

On that day in the valley, Chou He and I were immersed in the cloud "Yan Paradise" and drunk. The next night, the fans of Wengliuhu were snowing. Yukime on the 12th. Lao Nongyun, since the new temple has been here for more than 20 years, there is no snow so fast. /kloc-on 0/4, beginning of spring Yulong Yao cellar and dangerous building made another cup, which was soaked in clouds and sealed as "true water without fragrance". I recall that fifteen years ago, in Yinzhuozhai and Dongzhitang in western Guangdong, Xu, Sangjitao and Shen in their hometown met to enjoy the cool, and saw many seals of Jinshi and other families. After making friends with Huang, I got a glimpse of my husband's pillow secret. Sighing the seal of Lin Ding, a layman, stands out from the crowd and is incredible. When he was proud, he was superior to Qin and Han Dynasties and comparable to Gui, Li and Wen. This imitation of the layman's "Several Sails" is the property of Zhigu, but it was also collected by Zhang Zhi in the later period. Immersed in the clouds, I like the seal of the laity, and the contract is sour and salty, but it is not enough for outsiders. I especially hope that Gong Wei will hide others. Jiang ren

Jiang Shantang's masterpiece clearly records the accumulation of emotions, that is, it took several days to meditate and conceive, from drinking with friends in Yan Paradise to returning after the snow to "make another drink", enjoying the fans and enjoying the snow, which led to the rapid completion of printing, and I was still excited and couldn't stop. That is, there is a process of improvisation in the creative process, which also reflects the author's creative mentality. "No matter what happens, it is carefree, considerate and fun."

Without the description of the seal, we can't understand Ding Jing's creative process and feelings. Therefore, the marginal notes and comments provide us with first-hand information about the author's creative process. Zhejiang School's emphasis on calligraphy not only enriches seal cutting in art, but also gives us more and more intuitive descriptions of the author's own creative process.