Study On The Sealing Clay Impact On Zhao Gu Ni’s Carving Style

In the late Qing Dynasty, unearthed lute and expertise for the of the guidelines a new direction, Xu Sangeng, Wu Changshuo and other engravers set their sights on this. Zhao Guni,a republican engraver whose carving is learned from the Sealing clay,he researched on this for many years, so he is quite fine in all aspects of Zhuan method, composition, line quality, then created a reputed party named "Zhao Group" or "Yu shan school."For Zhao Guni’s carving style was affected putty, former scholars said little about this issue. This article discusses on basements of the sealing clay impacted on zhao’s carving, then combed the lute research status and Zhao’s biographies situation, proved the authenticity of this view from five aspects. The second chapter is based on an original spectrum with his own works,the writer compelshis works with the clay, and demonstrate the opinion from four aspects which includes Zhuan method structure, composition layout and carving lines, summed up some of his personalization features. The third chapter is summarized Zhao’s carving style, list the engravers who tried to use the clay in their artworks and summarizes the Zhao’s impact on the following generations and he was even widely known in Japan and Chinese Taiwan. The reference herein to explore the depth of learn from the lute, but also hope to analyze their rules and characterized techniques to do some help to today’s engravers in learning from ancient creations.