Books and Scholars Possessions
Ad
TAGS
Download or edit the free picture Books and Scholars Possessions for GIMP online editor. It is an image that is valid for other graphic or photo editors in OffiDocs such as Inkscape online and OpenOffice Draw online or LibreOffice online by OffiDocs.
Intended to evoke the interior of a Confucian scholar\u2019s study, this screen belongs to a genre known in Korean as chaekkeori (literally, \u201cbooks and things\u201d), which originated in the late eighteenth century. Initially, such screens were commissioned for the royal court and were painted with trompe-l\u2019oeil bookcases displaying books, imported vessels, and collectibles. In this screen the bookcase has been removed altogether; each panel portrays an assemblage of neatly stacked volumes and other scholarly objects, including paper, ink, a brush, and an ink stone, as well as archaic bronze vessels, porcelain, fruits, flowering plants, and small pieces of furniture. Distinctive objects appearing in the screen include (from right to left) three peacock feathers in a vase (panel 3), monochrome ink landscape paintings (panels 2 and 5), goldpainted black porcelain (panels 4, 7, and 10), a game board (panel 6), and a pendulum clock with both Roman numerals and letters (panel 10). Two auspicious Chinese characters are repeated on vessels throughout the screen, that for longevity (su in Korean; panels 1, 2, 8, and 9) and that for good fortune (bok in Korean; panels 1, 7, 9, and 10).Free picture Books and Scholars Possessions integrated with the OffiDocs web apps
