Birds Gather under the Spring Willow, Yin Hong, late 1400s-early 1500, Cleveland Museum of Art: Chin
Birds Gather under the Spring Willow, Yin Hong, late 1400s-early 1500, Cleveland Museum of Art: Chinese ArtA great variety of birds, including the peacock and peahen, are portrayed in a natural setting. The grandiose scale and presence of this work suggests its original function was for use in interior decoration. It could well be part of a set depicting flowers and birds of the four seasons-this is the spring scene. When used in the imperial context, works of similar type may constitute part of a large composition with the theme of “one hundred birds admiring the phoenix,” which provided a metaphor for human society and an idealization of hierarchical order under the imperial rule. The artist Yin Hong was a court painter and was the third generation of a painters’ family that served in the Ming imperial court. Size: Overall: 240 x 195.5 cm (94 ½ x 76 15/16 in.)Medium: hanging scroll, ink and color on silkhttps://clevelandart.org/art/1974.31 -- source link
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