Painting of One Hundred Themes (obverse)
Unknown Artist
late 1800s
Medium
Ten-panel folding screen affixed with album leaves (obverse), calligraphy (reverse), ink and color on silk
Dimensions
image: 117.7 × 33.5 cm · panel: 164.5 × 43.6 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Korean Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of Gordon K. Mott
Accession Number
1998.286.a
About this artwork
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 "Composi...