What is a calligraphy album?

Album is the mounting form of calligraphy and painting works, and it is also one of the traditional book binding forms in ancient China. The pages of calligraphy and painting albums are influenced by the appearance of books. Album binding is developed from the earliest scroll binding and folding, and the latest ancient books are basically thread-bound books.

In Song Dynasty, under the influence of books, picture books appeared. As a sketch of painting and calligraphy, it is loved by painters and collectors because of its small scale, easy creation and easy preservation.

Because the painting is not big, it is also called "sketch", also known as Ye Shu and Ye Shu. There are three styles of album pages, one is horizontal painting heart, which is framed and turned up and down, called "pushing tent style"; One is the vertical painting of the heart, which is folded in half from left to right, called "butterfly style"; The other is called "warp folding" (warp folding), and the smaller vertical bar is called "passbook"; Some of them are packed in a single piece, which is called "bulk".

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Album classification

Stylistically, album pages can be roughly divided into two categories. One is folded and the other is loose-leaf. Hard-shell covers are arranged on the upper and lower sides of the folded album, and the pages connected with the hard-shell covers are repeatedly folded back and forth, and both sides of the folded album can be painted; Loose-leaf photo albums are relatively simple. Generally speaking, a single job is to frame a single page and box it.

Formally speaking. It can be divided into two categories: integrated album and blank album. Integrated picture album is a picture album with intentional painting and calligraphy first, and then mounted; A blank album is a pre-made album. It can be inferred from the historical evolution that the integrated album should be the origin and has always occupied the mainstream in history; From the perspective of contemporary development, the blank album system has become the mainstream.

The photo album has a small frame, which is like a small axis vertically and a small roll horizontally. There are also many squares, circles, ellipses, gourd waists and various shapes of detached sectors, which are assembled into a book.

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