Pu Hua — Chinese Calligraphy | Late Qing Dynasty Art Print

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Pu Hua — Chinese Calligraphy | Late Qing Dynasty Art PrintPu Hua (, 1830s1911) was a Chinese painter and calligrapher of the late Qing dynasty one of the leading figures of the Shanghai school of literati art, which revived and transformed the classical Chinese ink painting tradition in a period of rapid social change. Known for his bamboo, orchid, and plum paintings executed in rapid, fluid brushwork, he combined the formal rigour of classical calligraphy with an expressive freedom that made him one of the

flat-colour style that directly anticipates modern graphic design and influenced Gauguin's most celebrated works

The Mantiq al-Tayr (Conference of the Birds

He died at 44

ink painting

bridges the human figure and abstract reduction in a way that remains distinctive in the broader modernist canon

Produced to mobilise the civilian workforce

and Cold War cultural diplomacy

he created a body of work of extraordinary formal clarity and emotional directness — women

erotically charged canvases — The Kiss

convey a scholarly spirit and formal elegance that remain central to the Japanese ink art tradition

and village life have a warmth

His White Ox