Research Of Wen Yiduo Seal Cutting Art

The culture fineness is rooted in Chu culture which had once reached a very high level in the fields of metal and stone relics, scholars. Water from Yangtze River has nurtured Wen Yiduo and shaped him in academic position, thoughts and noble personalities.His name is known to all. As a fighter for democracy, he had a strong hatred of evil practices and laid down his precious life for China’s democracy and emancipation. As a poet, he created a new school of Chinese verse of a rhyming form and put forward a creative theory of musical, pictorial and architectural beauty, which was embodied in his famous poet Dead Water. As a scholar, he was devoted into the collation and study of classical literature, as Zhouyi, The Book of Odes, Zhuangzi, The Songs of Chu and was praised as“unprecedented”by Guo Moruo.He loved painting as a young boy. As a student in Tsinghua University, he had published illustration, chart, decoration painting and so on; during his study in America, fine art criticism and artistic creations. He really mastered the essence of the modern art in theory and creation. He was proficient in seal writing and inscriptions on the oracle bone and bronze. He attained great achievement on seal cutting, which is unknown to the world. Being erudite through paternal teaching and influence, deep knowledge of the ancient writing and western art made him one of the few artists in seal cutting with western art professionally educated experience in the history of seals.Comprehensive reading of the seal has a mottled antique, delicate shape and density errors vivid, colorful body potential, revealing a strong and grotesque sense of the beauty of life. This is the uniqueness and personality of seal cutting. This has a great connection with him being a "poet, scholar, artist, fighter for democracy", and also is reliant on his study on ancient large stone Qin Xi research together with creative development on the basis of Wan School. He seemed to learn from no particular teacher, the abundance of his seal cutting methods enlivens the ancient techniques modern arts and was impressive. This paper makes a study on his seal cutting by making a reference to his achievements in poems painting and calligraphy, as well as origin, characteristics, value, and impact of seal cutting, so as to grasp the essence of Wen Yiduo’s seal cutting comprehensively and objectively. Also the writer wants to fill the gaps in this aspect to enlighten people in a detailed and comprehensive way.