Wu changshuo biography of christopher

  • Born in a small town in Zhejiang Province, Wu Changshou began composing poems and carving seals, an art that required both manual dexterity and a keen sense.
  • Artist Wu Changshuo.
  • Wu Changshuo, however, brought life into these inscriptions.

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    A Master of Ink and Stone Calligrapher and Seal-Carver Wang Chiang-wei

    Forgetting the self

    When he was in his sixties Wang began to use the style names Jianzhai ("steadily more abstinent") and Jiansou ("steadily older"), and carved a seal for himself with the inscription: "Steadily older and more mature, steadily more mature and more detached, steadily more detached and closer to what is plain and natural." During his fifties he had passed through a period of experimentation and innovation, "being different for the sake of it," but now he returned to the traditional artistic way of "being naturally different."

    Wang once said that an artistic aesthetic is something that emerges through long years of stylistic refinement and expression. Every artist goes through a non-stop process of evolution, accumulating a kind of natural grace as time goes by.

    If old age enabled Wang to become "steadily more proficient"-as Buddhism would have it-at his art, it also made hi

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    The Art Museum at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) presents the exhibition Strokes of Wonder: Figure Painting by Ren Bonian from the National Art Museum of China from 22 March 2019 to 18 August 2019. The exhibition, which is the first blockbuster exhibition of figure paintings by Ren in Hong Kong, features 82 paintings bygd Ren from the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), among which a number of works will be shown and published for the first time ever. Other exhibits include an expressive sculpture of Ren specially created for the occasion by Prof. Wu Weishan, Director of NAMOC, and a rare portrait of Ren by Xu Beihong from the Xu Beihong Memorial Museum. Members of the public are welcome to visit the exhibition. Admission is free. 

    The opening ceremony for the exhibition was held today (20 March). The officiating guests included Prof. Wu Weishan, Director of The National Art Museum of China and Doctor of Literature, honoris causa, CUHK;

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    A native of Suzhou, Wu Dacheng was born into a scholarly home where literature was cherished. After passing examinations and graduating with advanced degrees, he served the government with distinction in war and peace. He collected ancient bronzes and wrote poetry, calligraphy, and books on etymology. A leader of the Epigraphic movement (jinshixue pai, 金石皐派), he sponsored "elegant gatherings" for artists like Wu Changshuo and Luo Zhenyu, and was so passionate for early writing that he wrote his correspondence in seal script. This script evolved from earlier written forms, the more stylized characters confined to a grid, the lines thin and even, and the space carefully composed. Less pictographic than logographic, it remains widely used on seals to confirm identity and authenticity. Wu’s brushstrokes are executed with vitality and precision, and his stable compositions inspire confidence. While his studies informed his art, his calligraphy gave him insight into ant