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暗香壺韻 Plum Blossom on Purple Clay

沈覺初繪刻梅花砂壺集 Teapot Carving by Mr. Shen Juechu

沈覺初 Shen Juechu

ISBN : 978-988-9965-40-2


Film, Media, Fine Arts Distributed for HKU Jao Tsung-I Petite École 香港大學饒宗頤學術館

December 2006

128 pages, 8.625″ x 11.625″, 85 color illustrations


Hardback
  • HK$120.00

Shen Juechu (b.1915), a native of Zhejian province, studied Chinese painting and carving on seal in his early age. Later, he followed Wu Zheng and further studied Chinese painting. In 1977, persuaded by Tang Yun and Shen Zhiyi, he started the carving of purple clay teapot. He cooperated with Shanghai painting and calligraphic masters, and developed the “single stroke” technique, which made him the most significance teapot carver of the time. In 2006, Mr. Shen painted and carved a series of plum blossom teapots illustrated in this book. It is definitely not only his other stunning success, but also a treasure of the Shanghai art field.

沈覺初,生於一九一五年,名覺,以字行,浙江德清人。上海市文史館館員。青年時即好書畫篆刻,稍後從石門吳待秋先生學畫。一九七七年起,由唐雲先生引導,與沈智毅先生合作刻製紫砂壺及茶具。遍與上海書畫名家合作,首創「單刀法」,以刀代筆,深得神韻,響譽海內外。二零零六年繪刻《暗香壺韻》梅花砂壺系列,技法圓融,更見先生之藝,老而彌高,藝進於道矣。現今上海藝壇,皆推沈老為鐫刻藝術之龍頭人物。