scroll painting
Unfurling wall art
A scroll painting is a painting on paper or silk mounted on a scroll, characteristic of East Asian art traditions.
Vertical hanging scrolls display on walls; horizontal hand scrolls unroll section by section for viewing.
The format suits narrative scenes and landscapes that extend beyond a single frame: The museum acquired a Ming dynasty scroll painting of mountain scenery.
- makimonoHorizontal Japanese scroll art
- Japanese artCreative works from Japan
- paperPressed pulp for writing
- calligraphyOrnamental handwriting art
- brushworkPainter's stroke method
floral motifs · mounting · silk · mountain mist · colophon · sumi-e · Chinese art · ink · pigment · symbolic imagery · court scenes · horizontal · visual storytelling · vertical · hanging · bamboo · Buddhist scriptures · delicate
- picturespicture, photograph, photo, image, pic
- Chinese cultureConfucianism, Chinese calligraphy, Beijing, Chinese New Year, Daoism
- East Asian Culturechopsticks, yin and yang, tea ceremony, origami, qi
- Fine Artportrait, landscape, sketch, watercolor, drawing
- paintingwatercolor, acrylic paint, oils, oil paints, watercolors
- Asian artskabuki, noh theater, Peking opera, Beijing opera, Chinese opera
mounting/display format
scroll paintingstretched canvas
Fabric secured over frame
easel painting · triptych · oil on canvas · wall painting · altarpiece