Chang Qinghai 常清海.Chang Qinghai's pieces illustrate the Wei tablets style of calligraphy—especially the first two couplets. This style is based on the standard style but is characterized by a chiseled quality. Chang lengthens the vertical strokes, which are often thin, and contrasts these with the heavier horizontal strokes in his own interpretation of this style. |
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Creator.Personal Name: 常清海. Creator.Personal Name: Chang Qinghai. Creator.Role: calligrapher. Title: [Couplet] Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper (wei bei script); inscribed and signed by artist; two seals. Date.Created: 2002. Type: Calligraphy--Chinese--2002. 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. |
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Translation: You can hear the pine far away when it is silent, The stream is so lovely in autumn. |
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Creator.Personal Name: 常清海. Creator.Personal Name: Chang Qinghai. Creator.Role: calligrapher. Title: [Couplet] Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper (wei bei script); inscribed and signed by artist; two seals. Date.Created: 2002. Type: Calligraphy--Chinese--2002. 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. |
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Translation: Ancient pines show the style of some gentlemen, They write feelings with brushes and ink |
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Creator.Personal Name: 常清海. Creator.Personal Name: Chang Qinghai. Creator.Role: calligrapher. Title: [Poem by Li Bai] Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper (wei bei script); inscribed and signed by artist; two seals. Date.Created: 2002. Type: Calligraphy--Chinese--2002. 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. |
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Translation of "Leaving White King City," a poem by
Li Bai—a.k.a. Li Po, Li T'ai Po—701-762
C.E., Tang Dynasty: White King City I left at dawn in the morning-glow of the clouds; The thousand miles to Chiang-ling we sailed in a single day. On either shore the gibbons' chatter sounded without pause While my light boat skimmed past ten thousand sombre crags. |
Chinese text: 朝辞白帝彩云间 千里江陵一日还 两岸猿声啼不住 轻舟已过万重山 |
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Creator.Personal Name: 常清海. Creator.Personal Name: Chang Qinghai. Creator.Role: calligrapher. Title: [Poem by Wang Wei] Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper (wei bei script); inscribed and signed by artist; two seals. Date.Created: 2002. Type: Calligraphy--Chinese. 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. |
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Translation of a Poem by Wang Wei (701-761 C.E., Tang
Dynasty): I did not know the incense storing temple, I walked a few miles into the clouded peaks. No man on the path between the ancient trees, A bell rang somewhere deep among the hills. A spring sounded choked, running down steep rocks, The green pines chilled the sunlight's coloured rays. Come dusk, at the bend of a deserted pool, Through meditation I controlled passion's dragon. |
Chinese text: 不知香积寺 数里入云峰 古木无人径 深山何处钟 泉声咽危石 日色冷青松 薄暮空潭曲 安禅制毒龙 |
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