Wang Shoushan's Calligraphy

Wang Shoushan 王壽善

Wang Shoushan's pieces are very nice illustrations of the clerical style of calligraphy (li shu). This style is characterized by precisely drawn and spaced characters with a somewhat squat, rectangular appearance. The uniformity of the style produces an overall effect of calm and harmony. Back
	Creator.Personal Name: 王壽善 Creator.Personal Name: Wang Shoushan. Creator.Role: calligrapher. Title: [Poem by Du Mu] Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper (clerical script); inscribed and signed by the artist; two artist's seals. Date.Created: 2001. Type: Calligraphy--Chinese--2001. Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Chinese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Culture: Chinese. Material.Medium: ink. Material.Support: paper. Measurements: 14 x 52 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. Translation of 山行—a poem by Du Mu (803-852 C.E., Tang Dynasty): Far away on the cold mountain, a stone path slants upwards, In the white clouds is a village, where people have their homes. I stop the carriage, loving the maple wood in the evening, The frosted leaves are redder than the second month's flowers. 遠上寒山石徑斜白雲生處有人家停車坐愛楓林晚霜葉紅于二月花
	Creator.Personal Name: 王壽善 Creator.Personal Name: Wang Shoushan. Creator.Role: calligrapher. Title: [Poem by Li Bai] Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper (clerical script); inscribed and signed by the artist; two artist's seals. Date.Created: 2001. Type: Calligraphy--Chinese--2001. Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Chinese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Culture: Chinese. Material.Medium: ink. Material.Support: paper. Measurements: 14 x 52 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. Translation of "Leaving White King City," a poem by Li Bai—a.k.a. Li Po, Li T'ai Po—701-762 C.E., Tang Dynasty: White King City I left at dawn in the morning-glow of the clouds; The thousand miles to Chiang-ling we sailed in a single day. On either shore the gibbons' chatter sounded without pause While my light boat skimmed past ten thousand sombre crags. 朝辞白帝彩云间千里江陵一日还两岸猿声啼不住轻舟已过万重山
	Creator.Personal Name: 王壽善 Creator.Personal Name: Wang Shoushan. Creator.Role: calligrapher. Title: [Poem of Li Bai] Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper (clerical script); inscribed and signed by the artist; two artist's seals. Date.Creation: 2001. Type: Calligraphy--Chinese--2001. Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Chinese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Culture: Chinese. Material.Medium: ink. Material.Support: paper. Measurements: 14 x 52 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. Translation of a poem by Li Bai—a.k.a. Li Po, Li T'ai Po—701-762 C.E., Tang Dynasty: Sunlight streaming on Incense Stone* kindles violet smoke; far off I watch the waterfall plunge to the long river, flying waters descending straight down three thousand feet, till I think the Milky Way has tumbled from the ninth height of Heaven. * Literally, "incense burner", one the peaks of Lushan. 日照香爐生紫煙遙看瀑布掛前川飛流直下三千尺疑是銀河落九天
	Creator.Personal Name: 王壽善 Creator.Personal Name: Wang Shoushan. Creator.Role: calligrapher. Title: [Zhang Ji's Poem: Maple Bridge] Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper (clerical script); inscribed and signed by the artist; two artist's seals. Date.Creation: 2001. Type: Calligraphy--Chinese--2001. Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Chinese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Culture: Chinese. Material.Medium: ink. Material.Support: paper. Measurements: 14 x 52 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. Translation of Zhang Ji's poem: While I watch the moon go down, a crow caws through the frost; Under the shadows of maple-trees a fisherman moves with his torch; And I hear, from beyond Suzhou, from the temple on Cold Mountain, Ringing for me, here in my boat, the midnight bell. 夜姑江月半苏枫落钟城渔乌声外火啼到寒对霜客山愁满船寺眠天
Chinese Calligraphy

Wang Shoushan's pieces are very nice illustrations of the clerical style of calligraphy (li shu). This style is characterized by precisely drawn and spaced characters with a somewhat squat, rectangular appearance. The uniformity of the style produces an overall effect of calm and harmony. Back
	Creator.Personal Name: 王壽善 Creator.Personal Name: Wang Shoushan. Creator.Role: calligrapher. Title: [Poem by Du Mu] Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper (clerical script); inscribed and signed by the artist; two artist's seals. Date.Created: 2001. Type: Calligraphy--Chinese--2001. Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Chinese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Culture: Chinese. Material.Medium: ink. Material.Support: paper. Measurements: 14 x 52 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. Translation of 山行—a poem by Du Mu (803-852 C.E., Tang Dynasty): Far away on the cold mountain, a stone path slants upwards, In the white clouds is a village, where people have their homes. I stop the carriage, loving the maple wood in the evening, The frosted leaves are redder than the second month's flowers. 遠上寒山石徑斜白雲生處有人家停車坐愛楓林晚霜葉紅于二月花
	Creator.Personal Name: 王壽善 Creator.Personal Name: Wang Shoushan. Creator.Role: calligrapher. Title: [Poem by Li Bai] Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper (clerical script); inscribed and signed by the artist; two artist's seals. Date.Created: 2001. Type: Calligraphy--Chinese--2001. Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Chinese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Culture: Chinese. Material.Medium: ink. Material.Support: paper. Measurements: 14 x 52 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. Translation of "Leaving White King City," a poem by Li Bai—a.k.a. Li Po, Li T'ai Po—701-762 C.E., Tang Dynasty: White King City I left at dawn in the morning-glow of the clouds; The thousand miles to Chiang-ling we sailed in a single day. On either shore the gibbons' chatter sounded without pause While my light boat skimmed past ten thousand sombre crags. 朝辞白帝彩云间千里江陵一日还两岸猿声啼不住轻舟已过万重山
	Creator.Personal Name: 王壽善 Creator.Personal Name: Wang Shoushan. Creator.Role: calligrapher. Title: [Poem of Li Bai] Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper (clerical script); inscribed and signed by the artist; two artist's seals. Date.Creation: 2001. Type: Calligraphy--Chinese--2001. Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Chinese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Culture: Chinese. Material.Medium: ink. Material.Support: paper. Measurements: 14 x 52 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. Translation of a poem by Li Bai—a.k.a. Li Po, Li T'ai Po—701-762 C.E., Tang Dynasty: Sunlight streaming on Incense Stone* kindles violet smoke; far off I watch the waterfall plunge to the long river, flying waters descending straight down three thousand feet, till I think the Milky Way has tumbled from the ninth height of Heaven. * Literally, "incense burner", one the peaks of Lushan. 日照香爐生紫煙遙看瀑布掛前川飛流直下三千尺疑是銀河落九天
	Creator.Personal Name: 王壽善 Creator.Personal Name: Wang Shoushan. Creator.Role: calligrapher. Title: [Zhang Ji's Poem: Maple Bridge] Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper (clerical script); inscribed and signed by the artist; two artist's seals. Date.Creation: 2001. Type: Calligraphy--Chinese--2001. Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Chinese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Culture: Chinese. Material.Medium: ink. Material.Support: paper. Measurements: 14 x 52 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. Translation of Zhang Ji's poem: While I watch the moon go down, a crow caws through the frost; Under the shadows of maple-trees a fisherman moves with his torch; And I hear, from beyond Suzhou, from the temple on Cold Mountain, Ringing for me, here in my boat, the midnight bell. 夜姑江月半苏枫落钟城渔乌声外火啼到寒对霜客山愁满船寺眠天
Chinese Calligraphy