Nine Songs
- Medium
- handscroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 28 x 438.2 cm (11 x 172 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- painting
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
China, Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)
About
Painted in the <em>baimiao</em>, or fine-line drawing style, this ancient work demonstrates the literati’s use of abstract calligraphic brushwork for self-expression. The subject of the “Nine Songs”—songs associated with shamanistic rituals in the ancient Chu kingdom—had traditionally provided artists with myths and legends that they could explore and reinterpret in their own works.