Left Scroll from Calligraphy Couplet
calligrapher Liang Qichao (Chinese, 1873–1929)
after 1911
- Medium
- One of a pair of hanging scrolls; ink on paper
- Classification
- Calligraphy
- Dimensions
- Overall: 128 x 30 cm (50 3/8 x 11 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- China, Republican period (1912-49)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Chinese Art
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The prominent politician and modern reformer Liang Qichao writes here in an angular, firm, and little modulated regular script style, inspired by inscriptions incised on ancient stone steles. Those script styles were popular among reformers of the time, as they sought to revive the ancient culture and built a new China on the country’s strong ancient foundations. Each scroll cites the verse of a historic cultural figure in Chinese history.
