GUAN TONG _ MOUNTAIN

 I"m thinking about mountains and one of the mostfamous paintingsof a mountain is this one by GUAN TONG whichI haveposted about before but its such an amazing work

There's just so much in this scroll painting on silk. The clouds and mist the peaks and ridges the waterfall flowing down from the heights the trees in the bottom foreground the tonal gradient the touches of yellow on the leaves marking the season as Autumn.

Enjoy contemplating it. 

Jakuchu - Plum Blossoms and the Moon

#jakuchu #plumblossoms #moon #scroll #painting

Jakuchu a 18th century Japanese painter was known for colorful works but in this painting his approach is both minimalist and maximalist. The tones are simple mostly gray with a hint of brown on the trunk and branches and the moon is a flat circle. Yet behold the glorious complexity of the crossing branches thick and thin like the brush strokes used to render them and the mass of white plum blossom is almost Rimpa style!

Toyohiro Summer Painting

#toyohiro #japanesepainting #summer 

For those of you enduring the northern hemisphere summer this is the right season to share Toyohiro's famous work:
Enjoying the Evening Cool Under a Trellis

The bottle is probably earthenware clay and perhaps full of sake?

Both of them seem to be glancing up at the sky maybe not admiring the white flowers but hoping to see signs of evening rain? 

Mahamayuri

#mahamayuri #mayuri #peacock #painting #scroll

While Mayuri appears to have originally been a minor Hindu rain goddess or a symbol or vehicle of Sarasvati some Chinese and Japanese sects of Tantric and Esoteric Buddhism have divinities known as Wisdom Kings and one of them is Mahamayuri.