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 pair of hanging scrolls features a vertical column of bold, black-inked Chinese characters on cream paper. The characters are thick and fluid, with ink occasionally thinning. In the lower left of the left scroll, smaller text sits above two red square seals. The right scroll features smaller characters to its right. Both scrolls are framed by light gray borders and suspended from dark hanging bars at the top.

Calligraphy Couplet

after 1911

Liang Qichao

(Chinese, 1873–1929)

China, Republican period (1912-49)

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