Collectors of Chinese landscape scroll painting will recognize the format immediately — silk scroll, mountain, river, pine, and pavilion, a mineral blue-green palette. It has the unhurried quality collectors prize in shanshui silk wall art: a wall piece for years, not a season. A column of calligraphy and a red seal stamp finish one side in literati fashion.
In Chinese art, a waterside pavilion made for lingering; layered mountains receding into the haze. The subject takes its form from a mineral blue-green palette; its feeling comes from mineral blues and greens. The painting's surface has a soft hand-feel that only woven silk gives. The mountain, river, pine, and pavilion are rendered with a mineral blue-green palette, while mineral blues and greens tie the whole scene together. The balance between mountain, river, and pine and the surrounding mineral blues and greens feels exactly right.
Let it stand alone on its wall — scrolls dislike visual competition. Anyone drawn to Eastern aesthetics will find something to love here.
