Zhang Tongyan Regular Script Calligraphy | Shou Zheng Chuang Xin, Xing Wen Zhi Yuan

Description

Product Overview

This is an original regular-script calligraphy piece by Zhang Tongyan, a celebrated contemporary Chinese calligrapher. The artwork bears the eight-character maxim 守正創新，行穩致遠 (Shou zheng chuang xin, xing wen zhi yuan) — “Uphold integrity while embracing innovation; walk steadily and you will go far.” Rendered in dignified kaishu on a horizontal scroll, it is a statement piece for executive offices, studies and reception halls, and a premium cultural collectible and gift.

Artist Introduction

Zhang Tongyan (born 1958, Gaoyang, Hebei). He served as Director-Member of the 5th and 6th Chinese Calligraphers Association, Chairman of the 1st and 2nd China Financial Calligraphers Association, Director-Member of the China Literary and Art Volunteers Association, and Director of the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation. He is Consultant and Chief Calligrapher of China Tizi Network and BadouArt, Guest Professor of the Digital TV Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Channel, and Research Fellow of its Academy of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Art.

Zhang Tongyan masters multiple calligraphic scripts, excelling especially in clerical script (Lishu), running-regular script (Xingkai) and Wei stele style. His works have been shown at national invitational exhibitions of celebrated calligraphers, and he has served as juror and supervisor at national calligraphy exhibitions. He lectured in 15 episodes on Yan Zhenqing’s “Zi Shu Gao Shen Tie” for the TV channel’s “Masters Copy the Stele” program, and was chief editor of the Regular Script volume of the Chinese Calligraphy Tutorial Series. His clerical-script rendering of the Core Socialist Values was made into posters distributed nationwide. In June 2016, the Shuhua Channel held the solo exhibition “Revering the Classics · Zhang Tongyan Calligraphy Exhibition” for him.

Application Scenarios

Wall art for home: study, tea room, private residence
Decoration for high-end club, office, business reception space
Cultural collection, business gift, cross-cultural art souvenir