吴昌硕篆书七言联轴

吴昌硕(一八四四-一九二七)，原名俊，又名俊卿，浙江安吉人。早年跟随父亲读书，继因太平天国战乱与家人离散，居无定所。二十一岁返乡后，始得自修苦读，考中秀才。吴氏一度担任知县，因志趣不合离任，此后潜心诗文、书画、篆刻，成为「海上画派」代表人物之一。吴氏篆书用功〈石鼓文〉最深，晚年入古出新，开拓新风貌。此幅书联从〈石鼓文〉集字而成，笔力苍劲饶有古风。

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 Stone Drum script, in later years innovating on tradition to forge a new style of his own. This work is a couplet based on characters from the Stone Drum script, the brush force strong and full of archaism.

释文

以樸為秀古原樹。其真自寫斜陽花。(篆書)。冠卿仁兄雅屬。曾見吳山子集此聯背臨之。時辛卯(應為酉)(一九二一年)春。七十八叟吳昌碩。(行書)。

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