Cleveland Museum of Art

Left Scroll from Calligraphy Couplet

Liang Qichao

Date

after 1911

Medium

One of a pair of hanging scrolls; ink on paper

Culture

China, Republican period (1912-49)

Department

Chinese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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. Liang Qichao aimed to reform the country and strengthen its foundations through the revival of the ancient culture of China.

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