Left Scroll from Calligraphy Couplet
Liang Qichao (Chinese, 1873–1929)
after 1911
Medium
One of a pair of hanging scrolls; ink on paper
Dimensions
128 × 30 cm
Classification
Calligraphy
Department
Chinese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Accession Number
2023.162.1
Tags
Asian (from 1900 to present)male
About this artwork
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.