Liu Xiaoqing – Artist Biography
Liu, Xiaoqing, born in 1942, also known by the pseudonym Yipiao. He is a renowned calligrapher, a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, and the vice chairman of the Shanghai Calligraphers Association. He serves as the president of the Yangpu Painting Academy, a distinguished professor at Shanghai Normal University and Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, and the deputy editor-in-chief of the “Calligraphy” magazine.
He was invited by the city government to perform calligraphy at Yuyuan Garden for the visiting President Clinton, and gifted him with the phrase “Accumulated Strength Becomes Great.” Additionally, he single-handedly wrote the entire text of the “Analects” on 101 tablets for the Confucian Temple, composed “The Yuyuan Poetry Collection” for Yuyuan Garden, inscribed the thousand-year-old bell at Jing’an Temple, and left his calligraphic works in places such as the Longhua Martyrs Cemetery and Yue Fei Temple in Hangzhou.
He has published works such as “An Overview of Calligraphy Techniques,” “How to Write Running Script,” and “Model Books of Famous Inscriptions Throughout the Ages.” Over several decades, he has authored millions of characters. His calligraphy is proficient in regular and running scripts, and he excels in landscape painting. His large and small regular scripts are dignified and elegant, demonstrating profound skill.
Liu Xiaoqing is a contemporary master of calligraphy studies and has a significant influence in today’s calligraphy community.
刘小晴 – 艺术家简介
1942年生，号一瓢。著名书法家，中国书法家协会会员、上海书法家协会副主席，杨浦画院院长，上海师范大学、鲁迅艺术学院特聘教授，《书法》杂志副主编。
曾受市政府邀请在豫园为来访的克林顿表演书法，并以：“积健为雄”四字相赠。又独自为文庙书写101块《论语》全文的碑林，为豫园写《豫园诗存》，静安寺的千年钟，龙华烈士陵园、杭州岳庙多有他的手迹。出版有《书法技法述要》、《怎样写行书》、《历代名赋小楷字帖》等，数十年著述上千万字。书善楷、行，工山水。大楷、小楷端庄秀雅，功力极为深厚。
刘小晴是当今的帖学大家，在当今书坛上有着深远影响。