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Painting of One Hundred Themes (obverse)
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About this work
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 "Composing when Spring Begins" by Song scholar Zhang Shi (1133–1180).
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePainting of One Hundred Themes (obverse) (백납도 [百納圖]), late 1800s. Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910). Ten-panel folding screen affixed with album leaves (obverse), calligraphy (reverse), ink and color on silk; image: 117.7 x 33.5 cm (46 5/16 x 13 3/16 in.); panel: 164.5 x 43.6 cm (64 3/4 x 17 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Gordon K. Mott, 1998.286.a
