Cucumber and Eggplants
Yamada Dōan (Japanese, d. 1571)
1540–1571
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Painting: 28 x 44 cm (11 x 17 5/16 in.); Mounted: 114.9 x 63.5 cm (45 1/4 x 25 in.)
- Genre
- painting
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
About
Still lifes appear frequently in Western painting. This is not the case in East Asian painting traditions. Nevertheless, Zen monastic communities in medieval Japan did like the subject because its outward, "simple" appearance camouflaged the skills required to portray the subject convincingly.