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Early Spring is a hanging scroll painting by Guo Xi. Completed in 1072, it is one of the most famous works of Chinese art from the Song dynasty. The work demonstrates his innovative techniques for producing multiple perspectives which he called "the angle of totality." The painting is a type of scroll painting which is called a Shan shui.
In Chinese art, the handscroll usually consists of a frontispiece (引首) at the beginning (right side), the artwork (畫心) itself in the middle, and a colophon section (拖尾) at the end for various inscriptions. [5] [6] [8] The beginning of the scroll, where the frontispiece was located, is known as the "heaven" (天頭). [6]
Continuous scroll decoration has a very long history, and such patterns were an essential element of classical and medieval decoration. The use of scrolls in ornament goes back to at least the Bronze Age; geometric scroll ornament has been found in the Palace of Knossos at Minoan Crete dating to approximately 1800 BC, [8] perhaps drawing from even earlier Egyptian styles; there were also early ...
Cheriyal scroll painting is a stylized version of Nakashi art, rich in the local motifs peculiar to the Telangana. They are at present made only in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. [1] The scrolls are painted in a narrative format, much like a film roll or a comic strip, depicting stories from Indian mythology, [2] and intimately tied to the ...
Old Trees, Level Distance (Traditional Chinese: 樹色平遠圖; Pinyin: Shù sè píng yuǎn tú) is a Song dynasty handscroll on silk painting by Guo Xi.Completed in 1080, it is also a considered a prominent example of the "Northern Song" style of Chinese landscapes to which this piece has often been studied alongside that of Early Spring, current housed in the National Palace Museum.
Prosperous Suzhou is a handscroll, a long narrow scroll for displaying a series of scenes. It is twelve meters in length. [2] It is intended to be viewed starting from the right end, by laying it flat on a table and unrolling it. One admires it section for section during the unrolling as if traveling through a landscape, depicting a continuous ...
The term emakimono or e-makimono, often abbreviated as emaki, is made up of the kanji e (絵, "painting"), maki (巻, "scroll" or "book") and mono (物, "thing"). [1] The term refers to long scrolls of painted paper or silk, which range in length from under a metre to several metres long; some are reported as measuring up to 12 metres (40 ft) in length. [2]
Utagawa Toyoharu (歌川 豊春, c. 1735 – 1814) was a Japanese artist in the ukiyo-e genre, known as the founder of the Utagawa school and for his uki-e pictures that incorporated Western-style geometrical perspective to create a sense of depth. Toyoharu was born in Japan in Tajima Province (in red) in 1735. Born in Toyooka in Tajima ...