Artist: Zhao Puchu

Date: Modern, dated 1998

Dimensions: Height 84.0 cm, Width 45.0 cm

Material: Ink on paper

• Object Type：
  • CALLIGRAPHY
• Location：
  • Zhao Puchu Gallery
• Tag：
  • poem discussion running script hanging scroll zhao puchu 1998 ink paper

Zhiyong, a Sui dynasty calligrapher and Buddhist monk, is said to have practised calligraphy so hard that he even buried stacks of worn-down brushes in a 'Mound for Retired Brushes'. The calligraphic works created by Zhao Puchu in his later years, feature the pursuit of good brushwork strength to bring out a 'sinew' writing effect, instead of a wet, fleshy genre. Zhao expressed his calligraphic views to the calligrapher Shen Peng in this poem. Zhao's calligraphy seems to have achieved the state of maturity, close to that of 'retired-brush mound'. He did the work in 1998 at the age of ninety-two.