Seal Engraving
篆刻 / Qin dynasty– / Technique / Calligraphic Traditions
East Asia's seal art: seal script carved in stone, composed in a few square centimeters through the reversal of red and white (zhuwen and baiwen). Participating in paintings as signature, it perfected design inside the small square.
Red-white reversal / Seal-script line design / Composition in centimeters / The texture of carved stone
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- zhuwen and baiwen design / the Xiling Seal Art Society / Japanese tenkoku and signature culture