Artist: Zhao Puchu

Date: Modern

Material: Ink on paper

• Object Type：
  • CALLIGRAPHY
• Location：
  • Zhao Puchu Gallery
• Tag：
  • poem fall courtyard running script mounted sheet zhao puchu modern ink paper

Zhao Puchu was renowned for his profound knowledge of the Chinese classics and Buddhism. In his later years, he adopted a philosophical attitude towards death. Once, he fell in the courtyard but was unharmed despite his advanced age of nearly ninety. He then composed a shi poem to express his state of mind after the fall: '...rose with efforts, but to see a skyful of rosy glows', demonstrating his vigour and optimism in old age. His calligraphy features rigorously structured characters rendered with splayed strokes, exhibiting a sense of relaxed ease. Zhao completed this work at the age of eighty-seven.