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Chinese
Seals Exhibition - The Art of
Seals
October
1-11, 2008 by appointment only
(please
contact us to make an
appointment).
The Chinese seal has been an
important component of Chinese
traditional heritage and
culture. It has a high academic
and aesthetic value. The exact
date for the inception of seals
in China still requires further
study although some ancient
books have traced the emergence
of seals to as early as the time
of the legendary emperors time.
Japanese BUNJIN (elite scholar
who enjoyed Sencha society in
19th century) started admire to
collect scholar's items as their
status symbol.
Please come to see this
interesting exhibition; Seals
and seal-engraving have occupied
an honored place in the Chinese
literary and artistic tradition
for over one thousand years.
"As an
ancient art, the seal originates
from the inscriptions on bones
and tortoise shells. It is the
pre-cursor to the inscriptions
on ancient bronzes and stone
tablets which dates back to 1400
B.C. and was developed prior to
the art of calligraphy.
The seal
has been, from ancient times, an
art integrating characters,
patterns, and decorations. It is
an art of focused research on
the law of the unity of
opposites, and is thus also
referred to as "the ancestor of
graphic compositions"
Prof. Zhao
Ruichun, Guangzhou Painting
Institute, in an introduction to
Jun Pei Cui's "The Art Of Seal"
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