Lai Chusheng - Representative Works Series of Shanghai School Calligraphers

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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: In the modern art world, Mr. Lai Chusheng is an artist with a distinct artistic style, excelling in calligraphy, painting, and seal carving. His early works demonstrate solid foundations, refined through lifelong relentless practice and improvement, ultimately reaching a robust, simple, and ethereal realm in his later years. "Style is the person." His plain, sincere, steadfast, and upright personality, as well as his consistent and serious approach to things, are deeply intertwined with the style of his works. Tang Yun said, "Mr. Lai Chusheng is exquisite in calligraphy, painting, and seal carving. He thrives in innovation within mastery of regular script, clerical script, cursive script, and running script, displaying both strength and grace, balance and boldness, grandeur and spontaneity—unparalleled in the contemporary era. His paintings are fresh and unrestrained; his seals are executed with the precision of calligraphy, full of unique charm—all transcending traditional conventions and forging new paths." This can be seen as a summary of Mr. Lai Chusheng's lifelong artistry. Lai Chusheng, originally named Jixun, was also known as Ranshi, Chuju, Fuweng, Yizhi, Feiyè, Huadan, and others. His other aliases include Anchulou and Ranshibao. In his later years, he changed his name to Chusheng, also written as Chusheng. He was from Xiaoshan, Zhejiang. The artist once carved a personal seal stating, "Born in Ezhou, raised by the Zhejiang waters, and roamed in Shanghai." The side inscription reads, "Carved in the style of the two Wu masters, marking my life's wandering." This succinctly describes his life story.