WANG DONGLING (BORN 1945) Hua Fei Hua, 2001WANG DONGLING (BORN 1945)Hua Fei Hua, 2001 Hanging scroll, ink on paper, inscribed by the artist, dated xinsi, with two artist's seals reading Wang Dongling yin and ruyi. 25 1/4 x 26 1/2in (64 x 67.2cm)王冬齡（生於1945年） 花非花 水墨紙本 立軸 二〇〇一年作款識：花非花，霧非霧。夜半來，天明去。來如春夢幾多時，去似朝雲無覓處。辛巳王冬齡於杭州。鈐印：王冬齡印、如意Provenance:Ethan Cohen, New York來源：紐約Ethan Cohen畫廊Wang Dongling was born in 1945 in Jiangsu Province, and studied fine art at Nanjing Normal College 1961-1966, but later he focused on studying calligraphy with Sha Menghai (1900-1992) at China National Academy of Art in Hangzhou, graduating in 1981. Presently Wang Dongling is the director of the Calligraphy Study Center at the National Academy. Arguably the foremost calligrapher in China today, his work has been the subject of the three solo exhibitions at the National Museum of China. Wang Dongling's calligraphy is deeply immersed in tradition yet striking in its innovative approach. Unlike his pre-modern predecessors who practiced calligraphy for self-cultivation, Wang Dongling brings out the performative aspect of the writing process and turns it into a public event. In the Ming dynasty, Xu Wei (1521-1593) pioneered such a style, which was further extended by Wang Dongling by disrupting the rules of spacing and legibility and incorporating more body gestures.