Research On Liu Jiang’s Sealing Cutting Art And His Thoughts Of Sealing Cutting

Liu Jiang, is an artist who excellent in both performing skills and moral integrity has entered the late years at present. He makes intensive study of calligraphy and seal cutting art. In the seal cutting art, Mr. Liu was teached by Pan Tianshou, Zhu Lesan, and he learn to copy Wu Changshuo,He explore the verve of ancient imperial jade seal, the Han Dynasty seal and schools’seal, and lean from many other teachers widely and absorb the strengths from multiple aspects. He has also tried to carve Oracle, Zhong Dingwen into the seal, add the brushwork of stack seal script to seal cutting, and melt the lute, pottery mould and eaves tile into together, thus forming a new look of his seal cutting which is full of deep smart, sincere simple,and strong. In his thoughts of seal cutting, Mr. Liu has published nearly 30 books about this theory,Putting forward his ideas "make the past serve the present, make foreign things serve china" in seal cutting, that is runs through his seal cutting art practice. On the aspect of education, Mr. Liu went into the field of education in his thirty years of age, who was serve as a seal cutting teacher of calligraphy major in Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now is China Academy of Art). Since then,he has been engaged in education of calligraphy and seal cutting until the moment of his retirement. Mr. Liu witnessed and participated into the development of Calligraphy major from the establishment to the present of the Academy of Fine Arts. In the nearly 30 years of educational practice, Mr. Liu has not only compiled a large number of books for teaching, but also published many papers about education and teaching. at the same time, He put forward the ideas of education "teach students in accordance with their aptitude, Emphasis on tradition, advocating innovation "This article mainly from the printed matter of Mr. Liu, seal cutting art, thoughts of seal cutting and the influence of seal cutting art and thoughts of seal cutting these four aspects to discuss. The first part briefly discusses the printed matter of Mr. Liu’s experience, mainly from the process to his early education, middle age in education, carving style formation, seal cutting, later in life this remarkable achievements in three aspects. The second part mainly analyzes the seal cutting art of Mr. Liu, around Liu Jiang seal cutting art style characteristic, the origin and development of seal cutting art style, style of seal cutting art form factors in these three aspects to discuss. The third part focuses on Mr. Liu’s thoughts of seal cutting, and from his academic achievements, the theory form thoughts of seal cutting, thought of the seal cutting art education to analysis. The fourth part of an overview of Mr. Liu seal cutting art and thoughts of seal cutting influence on modern and contemporary seal cutting art.Mr. Liu is a famous calligrapher, seal cutting artist, and an educator of calligraphy and seal cutting. Through to detailed card, analysis, summary Mr. Liu’s thoughts of seal cutting in the decades of seal cutting art, aims to reveal the artistic charm of Mr. Liu and the reasons of the formation. At the same time, let the Learning carved seal’s people have benefit from Mr. Liu seal cutting art.