Artist: Zhao Puchu

Date: Modern

Dimensions: Height 14.0 cm, Width 7.5 cm

Material: Ink on paper

• Object Type：
  • CALLIGRAPHY
• Location：
  • Zhao Puchu Gallery
• Tag：
  • poem running script concertina-fold album zhao puchu modern ink paper

The calligraphic works included in this album were all completed in the 1960s. Both Ode to Yan'an and Shaoshan celebrated Chairman Mao's 'devotion to reverse China's situation' and conveyed Zhao Puchu's hope for 'using the form of classical poetry for the new content'. The work Three Wailings is a sharp-tongued satire on foreign politics, demonstrating Zhao's great accomplishment in poetry. It comprises three popular qu poems, written in a mixed tone of mockery and scolding. Well appreciated by Chairman Mao and received by readers, Three Wailings was published in the People's Daily on February 1, 1965. All of these works are considered calligraphy masterpieces for their legible, graceful genre articulated through deft brushwork and in thick black ink.