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Chinese Sages

601
150.0cm x 346.0cm

This pair of screens portrays well-known but seldom pictorialized stories. At right is Huang Chuping, a shepherd who gained the ability to transform stones into sheep. Flanked by his skeptical brother and a young attendant, Chuping fixes his gaze on a bright white rock in the bottom of the third panel, where a smudge of ink suggests an impending transformation. At left is a pair of recluses. Xu You, disquieted after declining an offer to take over the empire, rushes to wash his ears in a spring. Chaofu decides that the spring is now too polluted to water his bull.The screens are a masterwork of the so-called gyō, or “running,” style of ink painting. With origins in Southern Song Chinese painting, it is one of three styles assimilated by medieval Japanese artists and transformed by early Kano school painters, especially Kano Motonobu and his grandson Eitoku (1543–1590).

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Title: Chinese Sages
Artist: Kano Sanraku
Year: 601
Original dimensions: 150.0cm x 346.0cm
Format: Panoramic
Copyright status: Under copyright
Color palette: Earthy
Main color: Rosy Brown

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