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Painting of One Hundred Themes (obverse)
late 1800s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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).
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- Title: Painting of One Hundred Themes (obverse)
- Date Created: late 1800s
- Physical Dimensions: 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.)
- Provenance: Collection in Pusan, Korea, to Gordon K. Mott, Gordon K. Mott [1914-1998], Lakewood, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.286.a
- Medium: Ten-panel folding screen affixed with album leaves (obverse), calligraphy (reverse), ink and color on silk
- Fun Fact: Depicting small images of various subjects became one of the most popular types of painting toward the end of the 19th century.
- Department: Korean Art
- Culture: Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910)
- Credit Line: Bequest of Gordon K. Mott
- Collection: ASIAN - Folding screen
- Accession Number: 1998.286.a
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