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Together, the Four Gentlemen have been used in Chinese painting since the time of the Song dynasty (960–1279) since the publication of Mixtures Pharmacopeia aka Heji Jufang and were later adopted elsewhere in East Asia by artists in Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. However, their individual meanings have been traced to far earlier times.
Red and White Plum Blossoms (紙本金地著色紅白梅図 shihonkinjichakushoku kōhakubaizu) is an early 18th-century painting on a pair of two-panel byōbu folding screens by Japanese artist Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716). [1] The simple, stylized composition depicts a patterned flowing river with a white plum tree on the left and a red one on ...
The simple, stylized composition of the work [28] depicts a patterned flowing river with a white plum tree on the left and a red plum tree on the right. [29] The plum blossoms indicate the scene occurs in spring. [30] No documentation exists from before the 20th century on the commission or provenance of the screens. [31]
Flowering Orchards is a series of paintings which Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh executed in Arles, in southern France in the spring of 1888. Van Gogh arrived in Arles in February 1888 in a snowstorm; within two weeks the weather changed and the fruit trees were in blossom.
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 ...
Euphorbia fulgens, the scarlet plume, is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae, native to Mexico. Growing to 1.5 m (4.9 ft) tall by 1 m (3.3 ft) broad, it is a deciduous shrub with long, weeping branches and narrow leaves. In winter orange-red flowers growing in the leaf axils cover the length of the branches. [2]
The Plum Blossoms is a 1948 painting by Henri Matisse. It is held in the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. Provenance On ...
The English word for the biblical "scarlet" (Exodus 25:4, etc.) is a literal translation from the Septuagint (Koinē Greek: κόκκινον = kókkinon, meaning "scarlet"). The original Hebrew text ( tola'at shani ) translates to "scarlet worm", indicating that the scarlet color is derived from an insect, a requirement which was formalized in ...