A Study On The Arrangement On Ancient Bullas

Ancient bullas are the joint name for seals before qin dynasty. It is the earliest seal, also k nown as the warring states’ ancient bullas. Most of ancient bullas that characters on a seal carved in relief are casted. Some of ancient bullas are casted and some of them are sculpt ured. In general, they have the sidebar. Some chu-styled ancient-steal and qin-styled anci ent-steal have bounded lattices. Because the qin dynasty unified the country, it didn’t for m a strict system of royal seals and the usage of every countries’ words are changeable, in the process of seal engraving, Craftsmen give full play to the independent creative spirit, they change the words to adapt the distribution of the seal through stretching and transfo rmation. It produced a free and active layout and formed a unique paradigm in ancient se als.Seal techniques mainly include the words, art of composition, cutting and so on. Word sk eleton structure mainly refers to the use of words, word origin, deformation and so on; A rt of composition is the relationship between the text and layout; Carving skills are mainl y include cutter, the using of knife and so on. No matter how changeable in words and ski llful cutting performance, if arrangement is not good, it can’t be an excellent work. So the seal of composition on the aesthetic is very importantMing and qing dynasty sealers has experienced the advocate of the doctrine of "sealing of qin and han dynasties" After one hundred years of inheritance, seal cutting techniques ha ve been great progress. Since then, influenced by the creative ideas of seal cutting, sealer s pursue fresh and change, learning broad, more and more authors modeled seal compo sition for example Huang mufu, Deng erya, representative Li Yin mulberry, Lai chushen g and so on.Previous researches in ancient seal mainly focus on the seals of words and antique catalo g. It lacked the research in expression.Today ancient seal’s creation is very common in fr eehand brushwork. Under a pleasant situation of development and innovation, because of the lack of the research on rules about ancient composition, it is easy to appear some coa rse, improper and messy works.This thesis mainly analyze art of composition in ancient seal, and I hope can through the analysis and comparison of all kinds of ancient seal then combined with my own creative practice, will do a relatively comprehensive classification in this part. And I will not pay more attention to the shape, appearance, material of ancient seal.