Lotuses, Insects, and Birds, possibly 1500s, Cleveland Museum of Art: Chinese ArtPairs of herons, ki
Lotuses, Insects, and Birds, possibly 1500s, Cleveland Museum of Art: Chinese ArtPairs of herons, kingfishers, and dragonflies punctuate a profusion of lotus in this composition that, given the orientation of the herons and the clustering of motifs in the left-hand side of the work, may have once been the left painting of a pair. Presently identified as being by the hand of a Korean artist, the painting has a stylistic affinity with Chinese Piling school paintings. Such paintings are characterized by their bird-and-flower or insect-and-flower subjects as well as by their lack of contour lines, a technique called the “boneless” method.Size: Image: 112.6 x 57.5 cm (44 5/16 x 22 5/8 in.); Overall: 174.5 x 77.5 cm (68 11/16 x 30 ½ in.)Medium: hanging scroll, ink and color on silkhttps://clevelandart.org/art/1985.18 -- source link
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