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Wu Changshi (original name Jun and also named Junqing) was a native of Anji in Zhejiang. In early years, he learned with his father and, due to chaos caused by the Taiping Rebellion, was separated from his family, moving around with no fixed abode. After returning to his hometown at the age of 21, he began to study by himself in earnest, passing the prefecture examinations as a Cultivated Talent. Wu at one time served as Prefect, but his ambition was not in officialdom, so he left his post. Afterwards he devoted himself to poetry and prose, painting and calligraphy, and seal carving, becoming one of the representative figures in the “Shanghai School of Painting.” Wu in seal script reveals his greatest effort in the “Stone Drum Script,” in later years innovating on tradition to forge a new style of his own. This work is a copy from a section of the first stone from the “Stone Drum Script.” Done at the Chinese age of 63, the brush force is strong and full of archaism.(20110913)
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