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Painting of One Hundred Themes

백납도 (白衲圖)

late 1800s

Korea, Joseon dynasty

(1392–1910)
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Medium
Ten-panel folding screen affixed with album leaves (obverse), calligraphy (reverse), ink and color on silk
Measurements
Overall: 117.7 x 335 cm (46 5/16 x 131 7/8 in.); Painting only: 164.5 x 43.6 cm (64 3/4 x 17 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Gordon K. Mott 1998.286
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The way of displaying small images of various subjects became one of the most popular type of painting toward the end of the 19th century.

Description

The front of this screen features an assortment of subjects: birds and flowers, landscapes, and scenes of everyday life, mostly in monochromatic ink with light colors. The screen’s reverse side conveys a number of classical poems about the fleeting beauty of the four seasons. Traditionally, only one side of a folding screen bears painted or embroidered images, since these were used as a background furnishing. In Korean houses by the 1800s and early 1900s, however, two-sided folding screens became noticeably popular, possibly inspired by Japanese double-sided folding screens, which mainly served as room dividers in Japanese households.
Ten-panel folding screen with bird-and-flower, landscape, and figural grey-ink paintings in watery brushstrokes in each panel on one side and calligraphy in black ink characters writing Chinese poems extending down in three columns on the other. On one side, the circular, rectangular, oval, and fan-shapes of the paintings extend over a beige background. On the other, the calligraphy extends down a slightly lighter sand-brown background.

Painting of One Hundred Themes

late 1800s

Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)

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