Peonies and Rocks
1900–1925
- Medium
- Six-panel folding screen; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- Overall: 175.8 x 264.6 cm (69 3/16 x 104 3/16 in.); Painting: 104.7 x 30.8 cm (41 1/4 x 12 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- Paintings
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392−1910) or Japanese colonial period (1910−1945)
About
By the late nineteenth century, peony paintings with bold designs and striking graphic stylization were increasingly produced and consumed by middle-class members because of its symbolic meaning: prosperity and wealth.