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Jury's Comments, Seal Engraving Category CHENG Tai-Le ᇏՍᗳ
Seal Engraving

In the seal engraving categories of various art exhibitions, the numbers of The artist's proficient calligraphy skills are reflected in the seal engraving. The
participants are often small. The main reason for this is that seal engraving is an art composition, layout, and calligraphic style harmoniously form a whole, creating a
relatively di cult to master; not only does one need to fully understand the nature of work that expresses the artist's high level of experience. The works submitted to the
knives and stone materials, one must also be cultured to some degree in epigraphy, Exhibition this year are diverse yet uniform in style. However, all of them are slightly
philology, and literature. One top of this, one needs to have built up a work portfolio reserved, and would have been even more admirable if they had been bolder and more
of certain magnitude. Therefore, without years of diligent study, one would not even ourishing.
be qualified to participate in competitions. Nevertheless, in recent years, significant Award of Merit Winner: JHUANG Jhe-Yan Right Now
increases have shown in the number of young Taiwanese seal engraving artists and the The form and knife work present a degree of completeness found throughout the
quality of their works. work; however, no distinctive style is expressed.
The submissions for this year's Exhibition were carefully reviewed by the judges, and Some humble opinions are hereby provided based on an overview of this year's
the results are as follows: entries:
First Place: LIU Kuang-Yi Sunny Spring Day where Birds Sing on the Ride 1. The works' titles and exhibited contents are not entirely consistent.
The work presents meticulous knife work and composition with well-judged spacing, 2. In terms of the uniformity of style, although the submitted works included
forming a congruent whole. The artist is pro cient in calligraphy. If this could have been multiple seals, uniformed expressions of the creative concepts of one particular
incorporated into the seal style, the work would've been even more impressive. There era is favored.
is an inconsistency between the theme and the engraved contents, which could have 3. Since seal engraving is a form of visual art, the conceptualization of images
been adjusted. (including the style of the Chinese characters) should be a matter worthy of
Second Place: MENG Wei-Jen The Greatest Virtue is Like Water attention.
The focus of the work is on the meticulous crafting, while the composition re ects I hope these re ections enable participants to achieve greater things in their future
ingenuity and the margin shows the artist's elaborate e ort. However, the work does endeavors.
not exhibit a clear style, and there is no consistency between the theme and the
contents.
Third Place: LI Chin-Tsai Ancient Seals by Gu-Chuan
The artist attempted to emulate the style of ancient seal script and the striking
changes in its composition. While the methods and ideas incorporated are excellent, if
a higher degree of experience could have been shown through the calligraphy, and a
"naturalness over nesse" approach used to add an aesthetic style, the work would be
even more outstanding.
Award of Merit Winner: CHANG Tien-Chien Bird Shout

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