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Traditional Scroll Painting
East Asian paintings mounted as hanging scrolls or handscrolls, rolled for storage and unrolled to view, in ink and colour on silk or paper.
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Scroll mounting shaped how paintings in China, Korea and Japan were made and seen. Hanging scrolls are displayed for a time and then rolled away, and their tall format suits landscapes that climb from water to distant peaks, as in Fan Kuan's Travellers among Mountains and Streams (c. 1000). Handscrolls are unrolled on a table an arm's length at a time, so a viewer travels through space and story; Zhang Zeduan's Along the River during the Qingming Festival (12th century) follows a river into a crowded city.
Owners added seals and inscriptions over centuries, so a scroll carries its own history. In Japan, the 12th-century Tale of Genji scrolls look into rooms from above through removed roofs. The Korean painter Jeong Seon painted real Korean mountains in his true-view landscapes of the 18th century, and Yun-Fei Ji uses the format today. Look for red seals, colophons and mounting silks.
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