石渠寶笈初編(御書房),下冊,頁1096&*故宮書畫錄(卷八),第四冊,頁9&*董其昌(西元一五五五-一六三六年),字玄宰,號思白,江蘇華亭人,萬曆十七年進士,官至禮部尚書,諡文敏。他的行楷瀟灑生動,疏宕秀逸,自成一家。 董其昌書法初學顏真卿、虞世南、繼學鍾王,並取法李邕、楊凝式和米芾。此幅書於晚年,曰「仿」而不曰「臨」,因此作者有某種程度詮釋的自由,他抓住了顏書圓重沉穩的氣勢,但結字秀美,字間行距特別寬綽,是他自己特有的風格。 &* Tung ch’i-ch’ang was a native of Hua-t’ing (modern Shanghai) and a chin-shih degree holder who went on to serve in the Ministry of Rites. His running standard script was elegant and lively in a style of its own. Tung initially studied the styles of Yen Chen-ch’ing and Yu Shih-nan and later continued in the Chung Yu and Wang Hsi-chih tradition. He also borrowed from the styles of Li Yung, Yang Ning-shih and Mi Fu. This late work follows after, but is not a copy of, Yen’s style, because Tung has taken considerable liberty. He grasped the round, steady features of Yen’s style but made the characters elegant and the spaces between the characters and lines especially broad in his unique style.