元 杨维桢 行书梦游海棠城记卷
元(1271—1368)
纸本
纵 35厘米 横74厘米
本卷书写作者避世脱俗,畅游仙境的梦幻经历。全卷32行,401字。笔法坚实,筋骨强健,结构紧结,将章草书之拙,欧字之劲,草书之畅融为一体,具有鲜明的艺术个性。此卷是迄今所见杨维桢书写时间最晚且字数最多的墨迹作品,极具代表性。
杨维桢(1296—1370),字廉夫,别署铁崖、铁笛子、铁心道人等。浙江绍兴人。元代书法家,工行草书。
Record of a Dream Journey across Oceans, Halls and Cities, semi-cursive script
Yang Weizhen(1296-1370)
Hand scroll,ink on paper
Height 35cm, Width 74cm
The calligrapher and author of this scroll casts off the constraints of the mundane world,travelling freely in the realm of the immortals in his dreams. The complete scroll includes 401 characters in 32 columns. The brushwork is firm, with a sturdy bone structure technique. The compact composition tends towards segmented cursive script, where individual characters are rendered in flowing cursive script without joining consecutive characters. These innovations are clear evidence of the personal artistic character of the work. As both his longest text and latest surviving work, this piece is exemplary of Yang Weizhen’s calligraphy.
Yang Weizhen had the style name Lian Fu, and was also known as Iron Cliff. He was a native of Shaoxing in Zhejiang, and a talented calligrapher of the Yuan dynasty, skilled in running cursive script.