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Cucumber and Eggplants
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About this work
Still lifes appear frequently in Western painting. This is not the case in East Asian painting traditions. Nevertheless, Zen monastic communities in medieval Japan did like the subject because its outward, "simple" appearance camouflaged the skills required to portray the subject convincingly.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineCucumber and Eggplants, 1500s. Yamada Dōan (Japanese, d. 1571). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; painting: 28 x 44 cm (11 x 17 5/16 in.); mounted: 114.9 x 63.5 cm (45 1/4 x 25 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1982.11
