Xu Bei Hong · A ‘Xing Shu’ Couplet

时代：近代

名称：徐悲鸿行书对联

作者：徐悲鸿（公元1895年-公元1953年）

简介：

书体：行书

Era: Modern History

Calligrapher: Xu Bei Hong (1895 – 1953)

Overview: Xu Bei Hong was a master of Chinese ink paintings, oil paintings and sketch drawing. Amazingly, he was one of the most distinguished Chinese oil painters of the modern era. One of his poetry masterpieces is the 5-word-sequenced couplet written in the ‘Ben Ma Tu’ (Galloping Horses) painting, which bears the meaning of ‘a man thinks more and deeper when he is calm and quiet’. The masterpiece was produced in Chong Qing, in 1945, after the surrender of Japan. It was a present to his friend, Sun Zhi Jiao. Xu had had earlier made several trips to Malaya and Singapore during Japanese invasion, raising funds through the exhibitions of his art pieces, in the name of charity. Subsequently, many of his showpieces circulated into this region. His calligraphy bears the hallmarks of Kang You Wei. He was passionate about the incised calligraphy of the Northern Dynasties. He loved to combine the essences of brush-written calligraphy and incised calligraphy into his works, harmoniously. His calligraphy may reveal hints of coarseness yet energetic, with thick-and-thin strokes in combination; well-trained and vigorous; natural and unrestrained; fluent and untrammeled, with harmonious twists and turns alongside robust strokes and artistic charms.

Calligraphy Style: Xing Shu