Chinese Beauty Scroll Painting – Silk Wall Art – Beauties Sunset

For this Chinese beauty scroll painting, the painter chose beauties, a rock, willow, water, and sunset as the subject and worked it in classical brushwork. Among Chinese figure silk painting, this one stands out for the confidence of its brushwork. The vertical rhythm of the scroll draws the gaze upward through beauties, a rock, and willow.

In Chinese art, graceful beauties in classical dress; willows trailing over the water. Layered washes in soft natural tones do the quiet work beneath the confident linework. The scroll format invites slow looking, one section at a time, from top to bottom. In the soft natural tones, beauties finds exactly the mood it needs. The painter's classical brushwork shows especially well in beauties, a rock, and willow.

Hang it in the living room or study, where good light lets the silk do its work. For students of Chinese culture, it is both decoration and lesson.