A Study Of Peng Boyying 's Calligraphy

Pan Boying is a famous modern calligrapher, scholar and connoisseurof calligraphy and painting. He studied in Beijing in his early age and moved to Chongqing after the outbreak of Anti-Japanese War. After the founding of New China,Pan Boying came to Shanghai and served as the vice-chairman of Shanghai Chinese Calligraphy and Seal Cutting Research Association. He also taught in Tongji University and was a member of Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Appraisal Committee. He had been living in Shanghai until his final days. When living in Shanghai, he had created large numbers of calligraphyworks, most of which are his classic ones. Therefore, Pan Boying can be listed into Shanghai-school calligraphers.This paper is mainly divided into three parts. The first part starts from Pan Boying’sfamily academic context and further explores Pan Boying’s calligraphy studying experience. Pan Boying is a calligraphy advocate of two Wangs, Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi. Then he learned calligraphy of Chu Suiliang, Zhao Mengfu,Huang Tingjian, etc. He gradually formed his own characteristic style of calligraphy.The second part mainly focuses on Pan Boying’s calligraphy treatises. Pan Boying summarized many learning methods for calligraphy learners of future generations and these methods were included in his Review on Chinese Calligraphy which elucidated some problems in the history of Chinese calligraphy with closely colloquial language and proposed many opinions for people on how to learn calligraphy. This book has always been a guideline for calligraphy learning. In addition to the calligraphy, Pan Boying also had remarkable literary grace. Many of his critique poems about calligraphy have been handed down. Most of thesecritique poems comment on calligraphy of ancient calligraphers and Pan Boying’s friends. He combined well poetry with calligraphic appreciation and critics. The third part summarizes characteristics of Pan Boying’s calligraphy. Comparative analysis is made between calligraphy works and calligraphic styles of calligraphers who are contemporaries with Pan Boying. Finally, this part concludes the development enlightenment that Pan Boying gives to the contemporary calligraphy from his calligraphy learning experience.