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Calligraphy Couplet
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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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineCalligraphy Couplet (對聯書法), after 1911. Liang Qichao (Chinese, 1873–1929). Pair of hanging scrolls; ink on paper; each: 128 x 30 cm (50 3/8 x 11 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2023.162
