On The Study Of The Seal Character Of Zhao Zhiqian

The Qing Dynasty has a great significance and far-reaching influence in the history of Chinese calligraphy.The rise of epigraphy and the development of tablet calligraphy provide favorable conditions and expand the calligraphers’ horizon,which motivates them to bravely explore,try and practice continuously and finally create new artistic style.At that time,the people’s aesthetic consciousness and orientation of the calligraphy had changed,which tended to simplicity,vigor,elegance.Zhao Zhiqian plays a historical role in opening a new calligraphy style.Zhao Zhiqian has made geat achievement in “poetry,calligraphy,painting and printing”,and starting a novelty road of calligraphy style for the tablet calligraphy.He integrates the characteristics of rigidity,strictness,vigor and wilderness of the North tablet with the elegance and beauty of the Tiexue,takes the form of characters of the north tablet as the root of structural configuration and tries his best to pursue natural and elegant state.In addition,he applies the writing style of calligraphy to the stipple and puts practice in the seal character and the clerical script,so he can create his unique style.The paper makes a comprehensive and profound analysis of the artistic style of Zhao Zhiqian’s seal script,stages his specific works,analyses the style of his seal script.And the paper compares him with the calligraphers at the same period,and it can be seen that his “harmony in diversity” mainly shows in his artistic characteristics.At the same time,the paper also collects some overseas materials to study Zhao Zhiqian’s influence in foreign countries combining with his situation in Japan.According to this,the enlightenment of Zhao Zhiqian to the descendant and the modern and new thinking brought to current calligraphic art creation are summarized.