Zhang Tongyan Calligraphy | Yun Hu You Tian, Qun Hong Xi Hai

Description

Product Overview

This is an original calligraphy work by Zhang Tongyan, a celebrated contemporary Chinese calligrapher. The artwork bears the eight-character phrase 雲鵠游天，群鴻戲海 (Yun hu you tian, qun hong xi hai) — “Like clouds and swans roaming the sky, and flocks of wild geese sporting over the sea.” Emperor Wu of Liang first used these words to praise the transcendent, natural grace of the great calligrapher Zhong Yao; Zhang Tongyan now renders them in bold, dignified brushwork on a horizontal scroll. Ideal for halls, studies and tea rooms, and a premium cultural collectible.

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