明 文徵明 小楷書文賦 卷|Lu Ji’s Essay on Literature
Wen Zhengming
dated 1544 and 1547 · Handscroll; ink on paper · Asian Art
Wen Zhengming was one of China’s defining calligraphers. A passionate art collector and student of the past, Wen developed signature manners across different script types of calligraphy, from the formality of regular script to the ease of semicursive to the swashbuckling confidence of cursive. This late work shows Wen’s working in his highly ordered small regular script, a perfectly balanced combination of structure, angularity, and fluidity.
- Artist
- Wen Zhengming
- Date
- dated 1544 and 1547
- Medium
- Handscroll; ink on paper
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr., 1988
