明 仿陳淳 雜花圖 冊, Garden Flowers, After Chen Chun, dated 1540

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明 仿陳淳 雜花圖 冊, Garden Flowers, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), dated 1540, China, Album of sixteen paintings and one leaf of calligraphy; ink and color on paper, Image (six leaves): 12 13/16 x 22 9/16 in. ( x cm), Paintings, After Chen Chun (Chinese, 1483–1544), Following Shen Zhou’s (1427–1509) example of treating still-life painting as uninhibited “ink plays,” Chen Chun strove to turn his flower paintings into spontaneous “idea writings.” Realistic flower paintings had been a popular subject since at least the tenth century, and Chen Chun was perhaps the greatest exponent of this genre in his time

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