Lai Chusheng Seal Cutting And Contemporary Free Sketch Style

Lai Chusheng is a famous modern Chinese calligraphy and painting engraver,whose calligraphy painting and engraving were influential in the 20 th century.In the three art fields of books,painting and printing,his engraving has the greatest influence on the art world.The carvings of Chusheng were first indo-Chinese Qin and Han,mainly in Han-Indian,and then specialized in ancient Chinese,and had a deep study of Ming and Qing school printing,and Wu Jeanzhi and Wu Changshuo had a great influence on them.In his later years,He Chu’s later years set the Chinese and Indian,ancient and Wu Changshuo printing wind,bold innovation and change,at the same time,books,paintings,printing three art forms of mutual integration,so that its engraving art has formed a very unique artistic style.After the death of Wu Changshuo,Qi Baishi and other giants,the modern engraving industry remained silent for many years,until the 1970 s there was a coming.Chusheng’s outbursts,broke through the confines of the current situation,with the vast ancient clumsiness,thick and strong print wind in front of people.He made great strides in the knife method,in the chapter law,from the ancient earthworm extracted a lot of forms in line with the modern aesthetic,to develop a new face of modern writing and printing.To Chusheng’s Xiao-shaped printing is also very innovative,not only in the content of Xiao-shaped printing has a great innovation,but also make Xiao-shaped printing has a strong golden stone flavor,more in line with the aesthetic of the times.The greatest contribution of Lai Chusheng to contemporary engraving art is the modern sense and modern consciousness in his engraving art.The main feature of contemporary writing printing is to pay more attention to the spirit of writing,the function of the seal lyric expression is enhanced,and the creative techniques are constantly enriched.Since the 1980 s,with the continuous emergence of experience and new materials accumulated by the previous exploration of "indo-printing",contemporary writing engraving has developed rapidly.In this paper,through the background of the times and personal character characteristics of The Chusheng,focus on the study of Chusheng’s engraving style and knife characteristics.Through the analysis of seal style in different periods,we explore the modern consciousness in the art of Chusheng engraving,try to find the inner connection between the coming Chusheng engraving and contemporary writing and printing,and summarize the law of engraving art inheritance and innovation while enlightening the concept of contemporary writing and printing style.