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Wu Changshuo
Late Qing painter, calligrapher and seal carver from Anji whose art grew out of the Stone Drum script and who became first president of the Xiling Seal Society
A desk holds an unrolled sheet bearing three bold black ink strokes, with a rack of many brushes above it, a stone ink slab and ink stick, a porcelain bowl, a red lacquer box, a dish of red seal paste and a paperweight; a small seated figure shows through a round window onto bamboo.
Also known as Also named Junqing · Hao Foulu · Hao Kutie
Wu Changshuo, first named Jun and then Junqing, art names Foulu and Kutie, came from Anji in Zhejiang. After living through the wars of his youth he passed the county examination but sat no further, spending most of his life in Suzhou and Shanghai, studying calligraphy with Yang Xian and moving in the circles of Ren Bonian and Wu Dacheng; he briefly acted as magistrate of Andong. His calligraphy rests on the Stone Drum script, his seals start from Qin and Han models, and he painted flowers with the brush of seal script, wisteria and plum above all. When the Xiling Seal Society was formally founded in 1913 he was elected its first president; he died in Shanghai in 1927.
Life and times
Dates 1844 CE–1927 CE