China the Beautiful

deathie · Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 4 Location: São Paulo, Brazil

I would like to know about the "stamp" that is used by calligraphers and artists to sign their stuff.

It's something like the avatar from Aolung, or in this site, the red marks [img]http://i-gccs.fst.umac.mo/gccs/index.php[/img]

I don't know the name used for this personal sign, maybe someone could help me to know the name and i would like to know also how these signatures are made. Which criteria is used to compose and create them, is it the name of the artist? the lastname? well, that's it!!
hope someone can answer these questions, thanks a lot!

Aolung · Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 1037

Here
http://www.art-virtue.com/seals/index.htm
you can learn a lot about Chinese seals.

Aolung

Busoni28 · Joined: 17 May 2005 Posts: 21 Location: Dallas, Texas, USA

These might be helpful:
http://www.willsquills.com.au/ChineseSealStones.html
http://www.kk-ma.com/ma/home_books.htm (English pages)
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flying · Joined: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 15