Zhang Zuyi (1849~ 1917), the character 逖先, the number Lei, also known as Lei Gong, Hao Lu. Because he lives in Wuxi, he is also known as Liangxi to sit and watch the elderly. A native of Tongcheng, Anhui. He is a famous calligrapher, seal engraver and collector of gold stones in modern times. Xiling Printing Society Bai Tang Hou Shifang forehead on the book "Xiling Printing Society" four characters, for its book. Zhang Zuyi lived on the sea for a long time, and together with Wu Changshuo, Gao Yongzhi and Wang Xun, he was also known as the "Four Great Calligraphers on the Sea". Died at the age of sixty-nine.
Zhang Zuyi's year of gong is the study of good seals, li, and jinshi. Seal carvings, Shi Deng Shiru, Zong Shi Drum, Zhong Ding; Lifa Han Stele, Wei Jie, all from the Jijin Leshi of the Han and Wei Dynasties, belong to the typical epigraphical style. It can also be done, written in letters, and has both inscriptions. Its seal achievements should be higher than its grass. After middle age, on his elaborate seal works, there is sometimes a white text rectangular seal ruled by Deng Shiru: "Eight points and one word straight and one hundred gold", which should be a recognition of the value of his artworks in the market at that time.
Today, we enjoy the Calligraphy of Zhang Zuyi of "Straight Hundred Gold" together.
Zhang Zuyi calligraphy appreciation
Zhang Zuyi's "Lishu Six Sayings", Shanghai Gallery Collection
The modern scholar Ma Zonghuo's "Discussion on the Writing of The Yue Lou" commented on his book: "The Book of Books zong Tang, the division of the book Zong Han, although the knowledge is not high, but all can be in the middle, the seal is also very strong." This brief description shows that Zhang Zuyi's book is correct and the pulse is flowing; the pen and ink method is strict and precise, and the little by little painting is not out of the center's hanging wrist operation.
Zhang Zuyi's "Lishu Eight Words Lian" is an international auction, and the transaction price is 172,500 RMB.
Zhang Zuyi has survived in the world, mostly sealed. You Xi made four screens and pairs. The couplets of the book seen today are written flexibly and stretched, and the swallows fly freely; the knots seek danger in peace, and the danger is peaceful. The interior is permeated with a quiet and quaint atmosphere. The strokes are naturally undulating, stretching and stretching, and the tension is extended. At the end of the pen, there is not too much hidden show, revealing the naturalness and perfection of "outer rigidity and inner softness".
Zhang Zuyi practiced "into the ancient and not in the mud", the pen is rich in ancient taste, rigorous and meticulous, the writing is exquisite to the point of vigor, the strength is heavy on the silk back, there is no disease tip floating state, write a derivative of vitality and health, and show everyone's style. Not only is it sealed to the gods, but the calligraphy is also ancient and elegant, and even the style of the Jin and Tang Dynasties, the beauty of the one, so that the appreciator can not play endlessly.