Title:
Album of Ten Leaves of Flower and Landscapes
Creator:
Yun Shou-p'ing
Subject:
Chinese Paintings
Bird-and-Flower Paintings
Description:
t: Cheng-shu
h: Nan-t'ien, Yün-shi wai-shih, Pai-yün wai-shih, Tung-yüan ts'ao-i
In this album Yün uses a technique known as the "boneless" (mogu) to depict the flowers, leaves, and stalks. This method
uses shading and ink and color gradations to describe the plant without outline. It was a technique that can trace its roots
to the eleventh-century painter Hsü Ch'ung-ssu. Other artists of the early Ming were also using this technique, but in Yün's
hands it creates an extremely airy and light appearance, almost as if the plants were floating in space.
Publisher:
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
Date:
1676
Type:
image
Format:
Painting
album: ink and color on paper
China
Identifier:
CC.184
Coverage:
China
Yun, Shou-p'ing - Album of Ten Leaves of Flower Paintings and Landscapes