Prints

Rules of painting leaves 画葉起手法

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Type: Prints(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1633
Accession number: 2014.7.1.13
Compiler: compiled and edited by Hu Zhengyan 胡正言(Opens in new tab) (Chinese, 1579–1674)
Dimensions: page: 9 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. (24.8 x 28.6 cm.)
Medium: woodblock print; ink on paper
Description: One page from a woodblock printed book mounted as an album leaf. Illustration of five ways to paint orchid leaves with blossoms and bud with pointers. 画葉起手法: beginning rule of painting leaves; 左出式: left emerging style; 壳皮: shell skin?; 二鳳眼: second, phoenix eye; 四象眼: fourth, elephant eye; 五護根:fifth, protect the root; 學者先將此五筆習熟然後交搭左右皆同: the student first practises these five brush-strokes, then in a similar way, cris-crossingly adds on to the left and right.
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds from June and Simon K.C Li, Fong Liu, Mei-Lee Ney, and Anne and Jim Rothenberg, in honor of Steven S. Koblik
Department: Asian Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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