Painting of One Hundred Themes (obverse), late 1800s. This screen depicts paintings on one side and poems on the other-an economical format often used in Korea to allow the viewer to enjoy both sides of one screen. The front features an assortment of bird-and-flower, landscape, and figural album leaf format paintings executed according to the brush manner of more than 50 artists. A calligrapher has brushed several Chinese poems about the four seasons on the reverse side, among them "Composing in the Daytime of Summer" by Tang poet Liu Zongyuan (773-819) and "Composing when Sprin
Painting of One Hundred Themes (obverse), late 1800s. This screen depicts paintings on one side and poems on the other-an economical format often used in Korea to allow the viewer to enjoy both sides of one screen. The front features an assortment of bird-and-flower, landscape, and figural album leaf format paintings executed according to the brush manner of more than 50 artists. A calligrapher has brushed several Chinese poems about the four seasons on the reverse side, among them "Composing in the Daytime of Summer" by Tang poet Liu Zongyuan (773-819) and "Composing when Spring Begins" by Song scholar Zhang Shi (1133-1180).
Size: 17678px × 6614px
Photo credit: © Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: 1392-1910, affixed, album, art, calligraphy, cleveland, colour, dynasty, folding, heritage, ink, joseon, korea, leaves, museum, obverse, painting, reverse, screen, silk, ten-panel, unknown
