Form And Meaning Characteristics And Genesis Of Lai Chusheng's Pictorial Seals Research

Lai Chusheng is a famous painter,calligrapher and seal engraver of China whose works are highly praised as classics.Lai Chusheng had great influence in Shanghai from the 30 s to the 70 s of the 20 th century.Being diligent,perservant,loving,honest and diligent in thinking in his life,Lai Chusheng devoted himself to the art of seal carving,bold in innovation and winning the respect of the world.However,with the passing away of Lai Chusheng,his works and fame are gradually forgotten.Since the founding of the new China,Chinese arts of painting,calligraphy and seal carving witness tremendous progress.Under the passion and admiration of a few famous artists,pictorial seal carving shows more and more exuberant vitality and greatly promote the development of this area.However,a closer look at this achievement is still not worthy of our blind optimism.In the new historical period,the Chinese seal carving art still faces many difficulties and uncertainties.In such a context,the outstanding achievements of Lai Chusheng are excavated.Lai Chusheng's carving,especially his Pictorial Seals,daring to innovate and take a new path,are quite neat,bold and resolute in strokes,leading to a simple and vigorous picture.His Pictorial Seals are mainly divided into four kinds,which are Chinese zodiac signs,Taoism and other myths,social life and production,calligraphy and painting.In modeling,he cuts out the superfluous shape in a simplified way,having Han portraits and a smell of epigraphy.On morphological images,he has vivid pictures and has a very deep research and observation on the objects such as characters and animals.All these are quite worth learning.This article focuses on the study of the relationship between the life and character of Lai Chusheng and his works of art.Through the analysis of his life experience,we are to find out the reasons of his being eccentric,strong,loving and honest,from which we can see that his works are decisive,bold,unadorned,vast and confused.In addition,it is indeed a pity that maybe because of being loving or conservative,Lai Chusheng did not receive due attention and was drowned and forgotten in the crowds of the other masters of his era.