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The work is a development of suibokuga (水墨画, ink-wash paintings) made with Chinese ink (墨, sumi), using dark and light shades on a silk or paper medium.It combines naturalistic Chinese ideas of ink painting by Muqi Fachang (Chinese: 牧溪法常; pinyin: Mu-ch'i Fa-ch'ang) with themes from the Japanese yamato-e (大和絵) landscape tradition, influenced by the "splashed ink" (溌墨 ...
Wu Boli, Dragon Pine, circa 1400. This painting by the Taoist priest, Wu Boli (active late 14th-early 15th century), depicts an ancient pine tree, also called a dragon pine. Both dragon pine and pine exist as yang elements living near water, a yin element. As such, the dragon pine are symbols of longevity and of the Tao itself.
Hasegawa Tōhaku (長谷川 等伯, 1539 – March 19, 1610) was a Japanese painter and founder of the Hasegawa school. [2]He is considered one of the great painters of the Azuchi–Momoyama period (1573-1603), and he is best known for his byōbu folding screens, such as Pine Trees and Pine Tree and Flowering Plants (both registered National Treasures), or the paintings in walls and sliding ...
Trees in Chinese mythology and culture tend to range from more-or-less mythological such as the Fusang tree and the Peaches of Immortality cultivated by Xi Wangmu to mythological attributions to such well-known trees, such as the pine, the cypress, the plum and other types of prunus, the jujube, the cassia, and certain as yet unidentified trees.
Kadomatsu (門松) decorative pillars for Japanese New Year, featuring branches of pine, bamboo and plum. The Three Friends are known as shōchikubai (松竹梅, lit. ' pine-bamboo-plum ') in Japan. [11] They are particularly associated with the start of the Lunar New Year, appearing on greeting cards and as a design stamped into seasonal ...
Tips for eating your Christmas tree. Stick to pine, fir and spruce trees. Cedar, cypress and especially yew trees should be avoided because they can be toxic or inedible.
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of ...
Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine is an oil on canvas painting by the French artist Paul Cézanne. It is owned by the Courtauld Institute of Art and on display in the Gallery at Somerset House. It belongs to a series of oil paintings of Mont Sainte-Victoire that Cézanne painted throughout his career. [1]