清 居巢 鳥圖 扇面|Bird

Ju Chao

Date unknown · Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on gold-flecked paper · Asian Art

Ju Chao's inscription on this decorative fan says the bird is done in the style of the Yangzhou Eccentric Luo Ping (1773–99). Behind Luo Ping 's and Ju Chao's pictures is the idealized realism of the 12th century Song Academy painters. By the 19th century however, nature is no longer a mystery touched through painting; like Ju Chao's bird, it is a very material reality made a painter's plaything.

Artist

Ju Chao

Date

Date unknown

Medium

Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on gold-flecked paper

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986