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Painting of One Hundred Themes (obverse)

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
Image: 117.7 x 33.5 cm (46 5/16 x 13 3/16 in.); Panel: 164.5 x 43.6 cm (64 3/4 x 17 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Gordon K. Mott 1998.286.a
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Depicting small images of various subjects became one of the most popular types of painting toward the end of the 19th century.

Description

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 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).
Ten-panel folding screen with bird-and-flower, landscape, and figural grey-ink paintings in watery brushstrokes in each panel. They mostly cover the beige background of each panel, outlined in circular, rectangular, oval, and fan-shapes. Black-ink text appears along an edge of each painting, sometimes with a red stamp. The paintings, clustered in beige rectangles, extend through the upper three-fourths of the screen, a fine green-brown and dark-brown geometric pattern below.

Painting of One Hundred Themes (obverse)

late 1800s

Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)

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