Zhang Hai

Zhang Hai's piece of calligraphy is based on semicursive script with elements of the older li shu script.

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Creator.Personal Name: Zhang Hai.
Creator.Role: calligrapher.
Title: [Wang Wei Poem]
Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper (regular/clerical script); inscribed and signed by the artist; one artist's seal.
Date.Creation: 1990.
Type: Calligraphy--Chinese--1990.
Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Chinese.
Style.Period: Contemporary.
Culture: Chinese.
Material.Medium: ink.
Material.Support: paper.
Measurements: 21 x 38 in.
Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.)
Rights: C. J. Campbell.
Record Type: work.

Translation:
Bamboo Abode

I sit along in the dark bamboo grove,
playing the zither and whistling long.
In this deep wood no one would know--
Only the bright moon comes to shine.

竹 里 館
獨 坐 幽 篁 裡
彈 琴 復 長 嘯
深 林 人 不 知
明 月 來 相 照
Chinese Calligraphy