Calligraphy (couplet) / Mo Youzhi
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.205
- Title
- Calligraphy (couplet)
- Artist
- Mo Youzhi
- Artist Nationality
- Chinese
- Artist Life Dates
- 1811-1871
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1811-1871
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- China (nation)
- Guizhou (province)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- China (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Guizhou (province)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Sarah and Otto Graf, supplemented by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
- Style/Group/Movement
- hanging scroll
- Inscription
- In the garden, grasses and trees, springs without number; Under the brush, breakers and waves, the old man longs for tranquility Signed: Lu-t'ing Mo Yu-chih Only the first two lines of the couplet appear on this scroll, the last two lines appear on 1980/2.206
- Dimensions
- 132.4 cm x 27.31 cm (52 1/8 in. x 10 3/4 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- hanging scroll
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- calligraphy
- Physical Description
- This couplet is written in clerical script, an archaic style of Chinese calligraphy originating in the Qin dynasty (221–206 BCE) that became the dominant style of writing in the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE). Like seal script, clerical script is highly legible, but it is more calligraphic, with a pronounced, wavelike flaring of isolated major strokes, especially in rightward or downward diagonal strokes.
- Subject Matter
- The first half of the couplet (on the right hand side) describes the lush plants in a spring garden, while the second half is a citation from a line in a poem by the great master Su Shi (1037–1101).
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- Secondary Keywords
- genres
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 738 x 2754
- File Size
- 270 KB
- Record
- 1980/2.205
- Link to this Item
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"Calligraphy (couplet); Mo Youzhi." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1980-sl-2.205/1980_2.205.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024.