Chinese Famous People's Calligraphy and Paintings Treasury (Two Boxes, Total Six Volumes)

Author: Peng Yichao
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Publishing Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book is made of handmade Xuan paper, which boasts beautiful texture, fine and flexible, fold-resistant, pure white, dense and even, excellent ink absorption, anti-corrosion, anti-bug, and anti-aging properties. It is renowned as "paper that lasts a thousand years" and is the best choice of paper for premium book collections. Many important documents, classics, and fine calligraphy and painting works have been preserved thanks to Xuan paper. This series of books is part of the "Handmade Xuan Paper Treasure Book Recreation Project." It was planned and invested by Li Ke, Chairman of Beijing Zhipin Book Company and an independent senior publisher, and compiled over a period of six months by Peng Yichao, a young scholar from Hunan, who is also a couplet artist, calligrapher, seal carver, and Executive Deputy Editor of the Calligraphy and Painting Industry Newspaper. The "Biographies of Famous People's Couplets and Calligraphy" (hereinafter referred to as "Biographies") has been published and released by Anhui Huangshan Book Press.
Flipping through this book, which features a Song Dynasty-style binding and is meticulously printed on handmade Xuan paper, readers can easily appreciate the couplets and calligraphy of well-known historical figures such as Lin Zexu, Ji Xiaolan, Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang, Deng Shiru, Zeng Xi, Li Ruqing, Wang Wenji, Jin Nong, Wu Rangzhi, Zhao Ziqian, Zheng Banqiao, He Shaoji, Yi Bingshou, Sun Yat-sen, Feng Yuxiang, Duan Qirui, Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, Cai Yuanpei, Qu Qiubai, Wu Changshuo, Li Shucun, Lu Xun, Ma Gongyu, Luo Zhenyu, Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, Xu Beihong, Huang Binhong, Pan Tianshou, Guo Moruo, Sha Menghai, and Zhao Puchu. The book also showcases the outstanding couplets and calligraphy of representative cultural figures of the modern era, such as Qi Gong, Shen Peng, Ma Xiaoxiao, Meng Fanjin, Feng Qiyong, Lin Xiu, and Wang Yong. These celebrities nearly cover every era's political, military, economic, cultural, and artistic fields and social strata. Their couplet calligraphy represents the artistic achievements of their time, and some have even set up calligraphy monuments that have influenced several generations, such as Deng Shiru, Jin Nong, Zhao Ziqian, He Shaoji, Yi Bingshou, Wu Changshuo, Li Shucun, and Qi Baishi. Each entry includes at least one or two works, with some masters featured with over ten pieces, particularly without restrictions on the works of master-level figures, reflecting a humanistic spirit that combines literature, history, and art.
The calligraphy styles, including regular script, cursive script, clerical script, seal script, and running script, are organically integrated, and various formats such as Longmen-style, yaoqin-style, free-style, and dou-style couplets and calligraphy harmoniously coexist in the book. It is not merely a fine art book that combines documentary value, artistic quality, and collectibility.