Six Styles of Mao Zedong's Poems

Author: Zhang Xiyuan
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: Calligraphy is one of the most common, elegant, and profound traditional arts in China. The use of different forms and the combination of different materials in calligraphy can clearly express one's subjective world and shape various artistic images. Comrade Xiyuan, based on decades of calligraphy practice, has accumulated and then achieved remarkable results. In over two years, he wrote a total of 73 original poems of publicly published poems and companion poems by Chairman Mao Zedong in six calligraphic styles: Great Seal, Small Seal, Clerical Script, Regular Script, Cursive Script, and Running Script. This is rarely seen in China. Chairman Mao Zedong was not only a great statesman, revolutionary, and military strategist but also a great calligrapher and poet. His poetic style is bold yet graceful, powerful yet ethereal, and has long been praised as the peak of the combination of realism and romanticism. Poetry, calligraphy, painting, and photography may differ in technique but share the same principles. However, using the specific plastic art of calligraphy to express the abstract art of poetry, especially to depict the monumental works of Chairman Mao Zedong's poetry in the history of Chinese art, presents a significant challenge.