Left Scroll from Calligraphy Couplet

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.

A vertically oriented off-white paper is inked with seven large, bold characters descending in a central column. To our left, a smaller line of thinner script flows downward, ending above two small, square red stamps. The fluid brushwork displays varied line widths and dark pigment. The composition occupies a long, narrow format, with the black ink standing out sharply against the clean, light background of the hanging scroll.

Left Scroll from Calligraphy Couplet

after 1911

Liang Qichao

(Chinese, 1873–1929)

China, Republican period (1912-49)

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