This traditional Chinese painting scroll belongs to the long tradition of Chinese silk wall art, opening with beauty, dragon, sun, and clouds. Anyone new to oriental silk painting could start here — the subject explains itself. The scene breathes; nothing is crowded, and the silk itself becomes part of the picture.
In Chinese art, a graceful beauty in classical dress; the landscape around it gets the same careful attention as the main subject. The color work is all balanced, harmonious tones, laid on over meticulous gongbi detail in rich color with a steady hand. Generations of collectors have hung scrolls exactly this way, and the appeal has not faded. Look for beauty, dragon, and sun first; the balanced, harmonious tones around them do the quiet work of holding the scene together.
The vertical line of the scroll adds height to rooms with low ceilings. Anyone furnishing a new home will thank you for a piece like this.
