In the early Ming Dynasty, the famous calligrapher Kuang Lu appreciated eleven classic calligraphy posts
Kuang Lu, a master of calligraphy in the Ming Dynasty, is a treasure of his calligraphy works. Today, we take a look at his eleven classic works, feel the thousand-year-old elegance that flows through the pen, and explore the endless charm of calligraphy art.
—Epigraph
The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) lasted for 12 and 16 emperors, and the state of Zuo lasted 276 years, and in order to consolidate its rule, it strengthened centralized power and ideological control. In the Ming Dynasty, calligraphy was the mainstream, and seal carving was prevalent. Influenced by the culture of scholars and doctors, the calligraphy of the Ming Dynasty was mainly based on the line and pursued the beauty of delicate and beautiful. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, calligraphy inherited the style of the Yuan Dynasty, and after Chengzu moved the capital to Beijing, the style of Taige calligraphy rose. Ming Chengzu attached great importance to culture, recruited calligraphers and granted official positions, and promoted the practice of calligraphy.
Let's share the calligraphy works of Kuang Lu, a famous calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty.
Kuang Lu, a Cantonese poet in the late Ming Dynasty, was talented, able to write poetry at the age of five, with profound calligraphy attainments, especially good at cursive, unrestrained and natural, tracing the ancient and self-contained. He is proficient in the art of war, martial arts, and is proficient in the guqin, and collects the famous piano "Green Qitai". Although he was defeated many times for violating the system, he was an official in the Southern Ming Dynasty. In the seventh year of Shunzhi, Guangzhou fell, Kuang Lu held the piano and kept the festival, calmly martyred, only 47 years old. His cursive art, derived from his profound literary and artistic accomplishment, shows his uninhibited romantic temperament.
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu "Cursive Old Poetry Scroll" appreciation
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu's "Cursive Old Poetry Scroll" (detail), a long scroll on paper, 30 cm long, 252 cm wide, is now in the Guangdong Provincial Museum. Kwong is famous, versatile, and especially good at cursive. Although the title of this volume is Xingshu, it is actually a cursive work, which shows his superb calligraphy skills. Kuang Lu and the Ming army defended Guangzhou together, and when the city was broken, he was martyred with the qin, and his art and attitude towards life are admirable.
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu "Xingshu Xuan Wen Xuan Lou Poetry Fan" appreciation
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu "Xingshu Xuan Wen Xuan Lou Poetry Fan" gold paper calligraphy, 16.3 cm in length and 49 cm in width, Shanghai Museum collection. He showed his calligraphy talent. The verses on the fan are slightly different from the circulating versions, such as the contrast between "Snake Bead Hengyu Ruler" and "Acura Gui Wanyan", and the third word "old" or "should" in the last couplet of the sentence is to be examined. Kuang Lu expressed his admiration for the Zhaoming Anthology through calligraphy, and the poems reveal the memory and admiration of the ancient literati, as well as the unique charm of the art of calligraphy.
Commentary: "Ten years of work selection, February will be clear." The pearls under Ye are expensive, and the crane cover is light. Snake beads and jade rulers (Acura Gui Wanyan), beans Su Lan. He is the old (should) Liu generation, not the detention of travel".
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu "Cursive Du Fu Poetry Axis" appreciation
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu's Cursive Du Fu Poetry Scroll is a precious calligraphy work on paper, 93 centimeters long and 36 centimeters wide, currently in the collection of the Ho Chuangshi Calligraphy Art Foundation in Taipei. This work presents Du Fu's poems in cursive form, with unrestrained brushstrokes and majestic momentum, fully demonstrating Kuang Lu's outstanding calligraphy talent.
Commentary: The jade tree withers the maple forest, and the Wushan Wuxia is depressed. The waves in the river and the sky surge, plugging the wind and clouds and grounding yin. Cong Ju opened his tears twice, and the lonely boat was the heart of the old garden. The cold clothes are urging the knife ruler everywhere, and the White Emperor City is in a hurry and the twilight anvil is high. The sunset in the lonely city of Kuifu is oblique, and every time you look at Jinghua according to the Beidou. Listen to the ape's three tears, and follow the August chariot. The painting of the provincial incense burner violates the pillow, and the mountain building is hidden in sorrow. Please look at the stone vine Luo Yue, has been reflected in the front of the reed flowers.
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu "Cursive Long Scroll" appreciation
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu's Cursive Long Scroll is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, measuring 196 centimeters long and 11.6 centimeters wide. Kuang Lu's cursive writing is unrestrained, inheriting the wind of Zhishan and the rhyme of Huang Tingjian, which is both free and rigorous. His calligraphy achievements are due to his profound literary and artistic accomplishments, and cursive writing is a perfect display of his romantic temperament and temperament. If Kuang Lu is not good at calligraphy, it is a regret of history and a loss of heaven and earth.
One of the parts of Kuang Lu's "Cursive Long Scroll".
Kuang Lu's "Cursive Long Scroll" Part II
Kuang Lu's "Cursive Long Scroll" Part 3
Kuang Lu's "Cursive Long Scroll" Part 4
Kuang Lu's "Cursive Long Scroll" Part 5
Kuang Lu's "Cursive Long Scroll" Part 6
Kuang Lu's "Cursive Long Scroll" Part No. 7
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu "Cursive Jia to Seven Absolute Poetry Axis" appreciation
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu's "Cursive Jia to Seven Peerless Poetry Scrolls" on paper, 172 cm in length and 45 cm in width, is stored in the Palace Museum in Beijing, and its cursive script is unique and wild, reflecting his own personality. Although Kwong Lu was born in Lingnan, he traveled extensively, mingled with famous people in the Central Plains, and opened his book style, showing "innocence and indulgence, and splendid style". Its calligraphy is unique, not affected by Wumen and Huating, the style is ancient, and Wang Duo has the same magic, and is not comparable to ordinary local masters.
Commentary: There are many fallen leaves on the maple bank, and the autumn water in Dongting is late. There is no near and far in the boat, and the white clouds and bright moon hang Xiang'e. Kwong Lu tried ink.
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu "Cursive Liu Zongyuan Poetry Axis" appreciation
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu "Cursive Liu Zongyuan Poetry Axis" on paper, 120 cm long, 54.5 cm wide. The work is written with Liu Zongyuan's poems, which are full of poetry: the fisherman stays in Xiyan at night, and draws water and burns bamboo in the morning. The sunrise disappears, the mountains and rivers are verdant, and only the fishing songs rippling. Kuang Lu's cursive writing is elegant and flexible, showing the poet's state of mind. The style is known as "Yang Chenbin Bianba", and there is "Kuang Lu's Seal", which shows the artistic attainments of the calligrapher.
Commentary: The fisherman stays in the west rock at night, and Xiao Ji Qingxiang burns Chu bamboo. The cigarette is sold at sunrise and no one is seen, alas, the landscape is green. Looking back at the middle stream of the sky, there are no clouds chasing each other on the rocks. Kwong Lu. Style: Yang Chenbin is on the side. Seal: The Seal of Kuang Lu.
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu "regular script mirror heart" appreciation
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu "Regular Script Mirror Heart" on paper, the size is exquisite. Calligraphy is like a game for him, and his works are often titled "play ink" and "play brush", but the pen is rigorous, free to retract and release, rigorous in law, steady and solemn. This is similar to Xu Weizhi's genius, both of which hide a serious heart under the wild appearance. Madness is the appearance, and fierceness is the essence, showing their profound attitude towards life.
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu "Cursive Mirror Heart" appreciation
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu "Cursive Mirror Heart" on paper, 25 cm in length and 28 cm in width. He imitates the style of celebrities in the bamboo forest, detached from the material, talented and uninhibited. Often dressed in simple clothes, walking freely, singing in the market, as if no one is in a land. He is humorous and eloquent, and his pen is free to express his inner resentment and grievances, showing his unique artistic charm and personality.
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu "Cursive Fan" appreciation
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu "Cursive Fan Surface" gold paper fan, 16.5 cm in length and 51 cm in width. Tasteful in size. Shuyun: "Morning to Jiuhua snow, twilight Jiuhua bell." Words looking for gold relics, walking jade hibiscus. The rain feet move the spring hall, and the clouds hang on the peaks. Leisurely autumn and moon, come to Haimen pine. "Poetic, describing the feeling of Jiuhua. The paragraph said: "You travel to Jiuhua on the right, it seems that Zhongchun is a brother and a lawyer, Kuang Lu." There is a "Kuang Lu" seal, and the cursive writing is smooth, showing the style of calligraphy.
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu "Cursive Handscroll" appreciation
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu's "Cursive Handscroll" shows his unique artistic charm. The pen walks the dragon and snake, the ink dances, and every stroke is full of vitality and free spirit. His works are full of power and rhythm, highlighting the endless charm of calligraphy.
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu "regular script day brocade hall records" appreciation
One of the parts of Kuang Lu's "Regular Book Dayjin Tang Chronicle".
Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu "regular script day Jintang Ji" paper, a total of 23 pages, written in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, recorded Ouyang Xiuwen, the text is abridged. This work was exhibited at the "Guangdong Cultural Relics Exhibition" in Hong Kong in 1940. The inscription "Renwu February both look at the book, Kuang Lu." "And there are many seals. Li Xiangen's "Lingnan Calligraphy Style" praised its characters as imitating "Yanjiamiao Tablet", which is unique in Lishu. Mai Huasan commented on his "emptiness and purity, chasing the plain", highlighting the excellence of Kuang Lu's calligraphy.
Kuang Lu's "Regular Book Daytime Jintang Chronicle" part 2
Kuang Lu's "Regular Book Dayjin Tang Chronicle" part 3
Kuang Lu's "Regular Book Dayjin Tang Chronicle" part four
After admiring the eleven works of the Ming Dynasty calligrapher Kuang Lu, I was deeply impressed by the unique style and skill of his works. Kwong Lu's calligraphy not only inherits the spirit of traditional brush and ink, but also incorporates his unique understanding and innovation. His gestures are unrestrained and delicate, the structure is rigorous and varied, and each stroke seems to carry a profound cultural heritage, which is admirable.
Appreciating the calligraphy of famous artists, enjoying a calm life. Readers, what do you think of the above works of Kuang Lu shared by Tingyue for you? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area~