Liu Yu
Liu Yu
Liu Yu, character Yuanpu, male, from Beijing. Expert in cultural relic restoration of the Palace Museum, master of calligraphy and seal cutting. Mr. Liu Yu's calligraphy and seal cutting works emphasize tradition, inheritance and development, and "learn from the heart of the ancients, but not from the traces of the ancients". He is like a bee collecting the pollen of flowers, producing sweet honey, absorbing the essence of predecessors, digesting and absorbing, and integrating them in his works. He learned from others and formed his own unique artistic style! His seal: skillful knife, galloping with degree; complex and simple, virtual and real. His seal script: well received, free and easy, both quiet and elegant. And his official script embodies the solemn and elegant. What he assiduously pursues is "the book comes out from the printing, the printing comes out from the book". His calligraphy works have the charm of gold and stone, and are full of paper!
Overview of characters
In 1963, he studied with Mr. Jin Yumin, a famous calligrapher and seal cutter. For nearly 40 years, he has been engaged in copying the ancient paintings and seals collected by the Palace Museum. He is the only one who has copied imperial seal, imperial seal, royal seal, official seal, calligraphy and painting seal and collector's seal. He has copied more than 5000 seals for the Palace Museum, and it is difficult to count the number of seals on the copied collections. After years of research, he has made and restored the hard blocks of inkpad that have been stored in the Palace Museum for more than 100 years. On the list of famous teachers published by the China cultural relics restoration Commission in 1993, he is the only one who has witnessed the 60 year history of cultural relics restoration in New China. He copied the "treasure of the emperor", which embodies the spirit of the emperor and the wind of the king. His seal carving has absorbed the essence of art in the history of the millennium, and his calligraphy works have inherited the style and flavor of the famous masters of the past dynasties. His artistic attainments have always been associated with the national treasure painting treasures in the Palace Museum, which have gone through thousands of years of history. with a high starting point and broad vision, he devoted all his life to copying hundreds of seals of ancient calligraphy and painting collections. For example: pingfuti by Lu Ji in the Western Jin Dynasty, luoshenfu by Gu Kaizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, boyuantie by Wang Zhen, zhongqiutie by Wang Xianzhi, youchuntu by Zhan Ziqian in the Sui Dynasty, buchian Tu by Yan Liben in the Tang Dynasty, wuniutu by Han Fu; hanxizai banquet Tu by Gu Minzhong in the Five Dynasties, xiareti by Yang Ning, zhuoxitu by Hu Fu; zhuoxitu by Zhao Chang in the Song Dynasty The painting includes the painting of living nymphal butterfly, the painting of listening to Qin by Zhao Ji, the painting of going up the river during the Qingming Festival by Zhang Zeduan, the painting of people riding by Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan Dynasty, the painting of Xi Shan Yu by Huang Gongwang and the painting of Boya Guqin by Wang Zhenpeng, the painting of Yangtze River by Wu Wei in the Ming Dynasty, the painting of Wang Shu Gong Ji by Tang Yin and the painting of three religions by Ding Yunpeng, the painting of donkey reciting poems by Xu Wei in the Qing Dynasty and the painting of Hua Yan by Shi Tao The painting of snow on Tianshan Mountain and so on were all copied and engraved according to the original. while engaged in the professional reproduction, also engaged in the creation of calligraphy and seal cutting. Seal script mainly focuses on the works of Shi Gu Wen, Deng Shi Ru and Yang Yi Sun; Li Shu, Xi Lin's famous works such as Yi Ying stele, Zhang Qian stele, Shi Men song and Kong Biao stele. His calligraphy and seal cutting works have participated in exhibitions organized by the Ministry of culture, the State Administration of cultural relics and the Palace Museum.
Big events
In the 1970s, the imperial seal, one of the 25 seals collected in the Palace Museum, was copied as a whole. He once administered seals for Marshal Chen Yi, general Ye Fei and others. In 1985, the seal of "the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Palace Museum" was engraved on the first day cover issued by the Ministry of Posts and telecommunications. (October 10, 1985) in October 1987, he was invited to Hong Kong to attend the "ancient Chinese science and Technology Exhibition" in 1988. His calligraphy and seal cutting works were appreciated and collected by local people. Since 1990, Liu Yu's works have been published in newspapers and periodicals for many times, and he has also worked for Chinese celebrities (Lu Jiaxi, Luo Gongliu, Chen Shengshen, Shi Shuqing, Zhu Jiazhen, Liu Bingsen, Liao Jingwen, etc.), compatriots from Hong Kong and Taiwan and foreign friends. at the end of 1993, he was awarded the "honorary certificate" of "personnel engaged in cultural relics restoration for 30 years" by the State Administration of cultural relics. In November 1999, he participated in the National Exhibition of calligraphy and painting of public servant style, and his seal cutting and calligraphy works were exhibited in the China Art Museum. In August 2000, seal cutting works were included in the collection of photographic works of calligraphy and painting in celebration of 50 years of Chinese cultural relics edited by the State Administration of cultural relics. (published by Heritage Publishing House) in August 2006, Beijing evening news made a full page report on the "famous" column. On June 18, 2009, tuanjiebao published a full page report on the appreciation of paintings and calligraphy. On August 31, the 32nd issue of Sanlian Life Weekly reported on the "masterpieces" in the Palace Museum studio. in January 2010, the magazine of world of cultural relics published a special column report on "writing spring and autumn with iron pen and soft hair". Liu Yu, a cultural relic restoration expert in the "civilization under the fingertips" series of CCTV's "people" on June 8, 2012. China cultural relics daily, economic daily and people's daily (Overseas Edition) have been interviewed by reporters. Newspapers and magazines such as civil aviation of China, collection, people, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Art News also made special page introduction.
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