Yu Jue

Yu Jue

Yu Jue (1868-1951) was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. He lives in Suzhou. At the beginning, it was named Zhaoxiong. It was named Bingchen and Bingren. It was named Sixue. It liked to participate in Zen Buddhism. After the death of his wife, it was called shushukou Gujian. Modern painters.

Yu Jue was a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. He was good at poetry, arts and crafts, calligraphy, cursive and regular script. He first copied Yu Shinan and Chu suiliang, then followed his teacher Wang Xizhi and went to Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan. In his later years, he devoted himself to the stele of Han Dynasty. His writing style was thick, vigorous and elegant. Since the 20th year of Guangxu (1894), he has focused on painting, and his wife Shen Shou has embroidered decorative patterns on the bottom of the picture. After 19 years of being elected, he was appointed premier of embroidery engineering of the Ministry of agriculture, industry and commerce, and Shen Shou was the general teacher. For more than 30 years, Jue and his wife went to Japan to study art. In the same year, he went to Suzhou to buy a garden house and set up "Fushou couple embroidery company" with "Tongli school" to recruit students. Later, he went to Tianjin to establish the "independent women's Embroidery Institute". Two years later, at the invitation of Zhang Jian, he went to Nantong to run the "Nantong women's school". In 1917, Yu Jue went to Shanghai alone to make a living selling words. He returned to Suzhou in 1921 and became a lecturer in Suzhou Art College in 1925, teaching literature and calligraphy. Since then, Yu Jue has paid little attention to the creation and research of calligraphy. In 1930, he wrote a long running script and participated in the first national art exhibition.