Avalokitesvara image page
This album leaf is a ink, the Chinese picture made to be unrolled or unpinned a section at a time rather than seen all at once. the Imperial painter’s hand…
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Chinese Paintings
Green mountains and white clouds picture page
The album leaf is ink, and the medium decides the pace. Ink and colour on silk or paper ask to be read slowly, the eye led rather than struck.
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Spinning Wheel (Wang Juzheng)
This handscroll is a ink, the Chinese picture made to be unrolled or unpinned a section at a time rather than seen all at once. the Imperial painter’s hand…
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Gu Kai’s Daughter Shi Zhen Picture Scroll (Song Dynasty Copy)
The handscroll is ink, and the medium decides the pace. Ink and colour on silk or paper ask to be read slowly, the eye led rather than struck.
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Gu Kaizhi’s Pictures of Women’s Benevolence and Wisdom (Copy of Song Dynasty)
This handscroll is a ink, the Chinese picture made to be unrolled or unpinned a section at a time rather than seen all at once. the Song painter’s hand tha…
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Green Peach Blossoms (碧桃图页)
A single branch of peach blossom, painted by an unknown Southern Song hand, is all the argument this leaf needs.
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The Great Nuo Exorcism (大傩图轴)
Most Song painting shows scholars and courtiers. This one shows people laughing behind masks, and it is a gift to anyone who wants to know how ordinary Son…
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Loquat and Mountain Bird (赵佶枇杷山鸟图页)
The most demanding art patron in Chinese history also painted small things with enormous care. A loquat branch with a single bird carries his manner, and t…
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One Hundred Flowers (百花图卷)
Someone in the Song dynasty walked a garden with a brush and set down one flower after another. The result is a handscroll now called One Hundred Flowers,…
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Reed Banks in Heavy Snow (梁师闵芦汀密雪图卷)
A Northern Song court painter left us a winter so quiet you can almost hear the cold. Liang Shimin painted it. The handscroll is now called Reed Banks in H…
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