Chinese arts paper mounted on card original work
Inscription reads Taste of Summer
YAN Pink lotus flower and bird traditional Chinese painting
Rich pink colours emanate from the lotus flowers in this bright summer scene of the “bird and flower” genre in traditional Chinese painting style.
As is typical of this style a small window into nature is recreated on paper, conveying the natural world of secluded darker grasses painted in traditional inks contrasted with the bright summer colours of the lotus flower and blue bird.
This scene projects rich detail from the central pink flower with radiant colourful petals and the bird is painted with a lifelike poise and feature while the colouring of the large lotus leaves suggest a warm and sunny day and the darker grasses and plants add a further depth to this natural setting.
Perhaps the most classic representative flower of traditional Chinese painting the water growing lotus has since ancient times been loved and painted in all forms, sang in poetic prose in the Tang dynasty and has left a cultural heritage in oral language that has endured to this day.
The petals of this elegant flower show distinct tempo according to the weight and direction of stroke used in creating it’s form, this YAN painting shows fairly deep and bold colours of the petals whose form is painted out from centre to periphery which is one of the many traditional techniques used in painting lotus flowers and talked about in more depth in our
This painting is of a Chinese traditional painting paper of yellow tint and obvious fabric like material effect, the paper is not smooth and not canvas yet displays the small fibres of a thicker paper or card.
The paper is mounted upon a slightly off white tending towards yellow card whose colour is captured adequately in the above picture when compared to the white background of the website, this is not a framed painting yet has a rigidity suitable for direct hanging or better still mounting in a frame or other display medium.
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