Studies On Aesthetics Of Poetry Seal

"Poetry Seal" refers to such a kind of seal engraving that has texts expressing feeling or willing with words, phrases, sentences, or even small chapters as its content, including Lucky Sayings Seal, Idioms Seal, Proverb Seal, Poems Seal, and so on. It was born in Spring and Autumn Period, and goes prosperious in Ming and Qing Dynasty. It is of the most vitality in Chinese Seal Engraving, and also its inevitable trend.Compared with Non- Poetry Seal, such as Image Seal, Personal Name Seal, Style Name Seal, Studio or Study Seal and Official Seal, Calligraphy and Inscription, we can grasp the unique artistic personality of Poetry Seal preliminary: using "metal and stone's taste" lines, it condense the universe within a small place, highlights individual life sentiments in the authoritative national esprit de corps. As a combination of language arts and the art of seal engraving, its printed text "condenses thousands of words into several sharp ones", sublimeing words to be pithy saying: a personal narrative in a small place, personality marked in a stone, artistic conception concealed in the corner, sensibility and pensee reposed in sharp words. The soul of its formal language is the line ,.with rhythm, carrying the profound Chinese culture with a history of thousands of yours, and creating a "artistically vivid" character.To engrave a Poetry Seal means to make the "sound", the "shape" and the "meaning" of the character entirely "strange". Language art and the art of seal engraving can stimulate inspiration to each other in the process of creating a Poetry Seal. They combine with each other in two ways: The two put up basically the same artistic conception, and explain for each other- parallel relationship; The two put up basically the contrary artistic conception, and get a deeper meaning by their intercommunication—contrapuntal relationship. Accepters can feel the expressiveness from both as a combination synchronously, so that they can make the better effect: Supported by stone, words become more powerful; Performed in a more beautiful way, words can be diffused breezily; Using words as its wing, seal engraving can go round easily.To create an artistic conception is the ultimate goal of creating a Poetry Seal. It demonstrated by specific formal language-- the point, line, surface, etc. in the printed surface and side carving, with the poetic meaning conveyed by text as its background. Adjustments are inevitable, since a variety of "language" coexist. We should compare its pros and cons, when we decide to do any adjustments. We should consider the unification of materials and printed surface, side carving, the same as the unification of the printed surface and side carving, so as to create a harmony artistic conception.. It is pivotal to open our overall feeling receivers, not to set threshold, and to let them come into synaesthesia to create a harmony artistic conception. As a typical symbolic art, the highest symbol of Poetry Seal is that man and nature is one.Poetry Seal manifests its aesthetic cultural values mainly in two ways: First, it has witnessed the changes that took place in the cultural spirit of the Chinese nation. Poetry Seal is a reflection of social life, an embodiment of aesthetic fashion and aesthetic taste. Its rheological style is closely related to the social changing life and the development of aesthetic consciousness. Every one little Poetry Seal is the epitome of national spirit of the times: the rational spirit of Pre-Qin Period, the respect to objective reality in Han Dynasty, the poetic magnanimity in Tang Dynasty, the sentimental feelings in Ming Dynasty, the nostalgic feelings in Qing Dynasty. Secondly, it conveys the sentiments of the Chinese literati. Poetry Seal, especially Poetry Seal since Ming and Qing Dynasties, has become an anchorage of literati's life goals, emotion, and value. They create them personally for self-entertainment, or as presents for relatives. Poetry Seal bears the sentiment of the Chinese literati in mind: the elegant zest in life, the deep understanding of life, and sincere passion to the universe: nature, relatives and friends, and art.