Bamboo Landscape

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Bamboo Landscape

Zhu Sheng

Medium
Ink on paper
Department
Asian Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art

One technique commonly used in the flower-and-bird painting tradition is daoyun , a reverse-saturation method in which the flowers or plants are left as negative space—areas of white against an ink-wash ground. The method emerged from painters’ attempts to capture the brilliant whiteness of blossoms and plants in moonlight—or in winter, as seen in this scroll. China, Asia

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