Follow a painter’s birds flowers and poems.
Yao Shou’s 1494 handscroll combines natural subjects with his own poetry. Across its length, birds, bamboo, rocks, and other motifs become opportunities to explore varied brushwork and ink tones.
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
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Digital image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Creator: Yao Shou Chinese, 1423-1495
Original imagePublic domain — faithful reproduction of a two-dimensional artwork
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