Chinese artists by Michel Nau - Wu Changshuo  吴昌硕  
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

Wu Changshuo

 
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 吴昌硕

 
     
 

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1844

Wu Changshuo   吴昌硕 ( 1844-1927 ) original name Wu Junqing, was born into a family

 

of scholars, on September 12, in Huzhou, Anji County, in Zhejiang Province  China.

 

 

 

He interested at a very young age, in poetry and engraving on seals.

 

 

1864

He moved to  Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.

 

 

1874

During a stay in Shanghai, the use of color in painting and calligraphy by Zhao Ziqian

 

incited him to paint. Encouraged by Ren Bonian who advised him to apply

 

to painting his knowledge of inscriptions on bronze and stone, he created an original style.

   

1896

He left his job as government employee to devote himself to his Art.

 

( poetry, calligraphy, painting, seals )

   

1903

He was chairman of the Xiling Society of the Seal Art, an academic organisation created  

 

to play a role in the development and research of the Art of seal, painting and calligraphy.

   

1927

He died on November 29, in Shanghai, at the age of 83.

   
 

Danièle Sicard

   

   
  Exhibitions  selection
   

2001

30.01 19.08  Nineteenth- And Twentieth-century Chinese Paintings From The Robert H. Ellsworth

 

Collection  The Metropolitan Museum New York United States

2003

13.02 13.04  20th Century Chinese Paintings From Singapore Collections  (Sam) Singapore

 

Art Museum  Singapore

2005

23.09 12.02  Chinese Paintings From the C. P. Lin Collection The Hong Kong Museum of Art

2010

17.02 04.07  Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future: Master Ink Painters in 20th-Century China

 

Cantor Arts Center  Stanford University  United States

 

 
 

 Wu Changshuo  吴昌硕

 
 

Wu Changshuo  吴昌硕

 

 

© Wu Changshuo  吴昌硕 - 书画拍卖集成 1995 - 2002  

书画拍卖集成 1995 - 2002

湖南省新华书店经销

 

吴昌硕

2004

  catalogue in chinese  
 

25,8 cm x18,6 cm

 
 

122 p

 
 

isbn : 7 5356 1973 8

 
     
       
       
       

 
 

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