Painted on silk in the classic vertical hanging-scroll format, this traditional Chinese painting scroll presents two beauties, rockery, and bamboo. Anyone new to Chinese silk wall art could start here — the subject explains itself. The composition reads clearly from across the room and keeps its secrets for close viewing.
Chinese viewers would read the scene at a glance: graceful beauties in classical dress, and bamboo, the emblem of the upright gentleman. What holds it together is rich, full color and a palette of quiet, harmonious hues. Hanging a scroll is closer to hanging a textile than a framed print, and rooms feel it. Two beauties anchors the composition, and the surrounding details reward a second look. It is in passages like two beauties that the rich, full color really shows its quality.
It fits traditional rooms and contemporary ones with equal ease. It makes a gracious thank-you for a generous host.
