狩野山卜筆四季花鳥図屏風|Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons
The Met
Artist: Kano Sanboku(Japanese, active mid-17th–early 18th century)
Date: late 17th century
Department: Asian Art
Classification: Paintings
Medium: Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper
Dimensions: Image: 59 in. x 12 ft. 1/2 in. (149.9 x 367 cm)
Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 1999
Visual Descriptions
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Brief Description
Two birds, a flowering tree, rocks, and plants on a light brown multi-panel screen
Detailed Description
This multi-panel screen painting features a natural landscape on a light brown, textured background. The screen is composed of six vertical panels. On the far left, the panels are largely empty, showing only faint, wispy vertical lines of light brown. Moving right, a cluster of white flowers with long, dark green leaves emerges from the bottom edge of the second panel. In the center, two birds are depicted. One bird, with a dark head, white chest, and dark wings with white markings, is perched on a small, rounded brown rock formation, looking downwards. Below this rock are small green plants and a few white flowers. Above and to the right of the perched bird, a second bird with similar markings is shown in mid-air or perched on a thin branch, facing right. To the right of the birds, a large, gnarled tree trunk with several branches extends upwards and to the left. These branches are adorned with numerous small, delicate white flowers. The tree is rooted amidst a complex arrangement of large, angular brown and gray rocks. Green foliage grows around the base of the tree and within the crevices of the rocks. The far right panels continue the rock formations and show a lighter brown, slightly undulating background. The overall color palette is muted, dominated by browns, grays, and greens, with accents of white from the flowers and the birds' plumage.
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