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Cucumber and Eggplants

1500s

Yamada Dōan 山田道安（順清）

(Japanese, d. 1571)
Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
hanging scroll; ink on paper
Painting: 28 x 44 cm (11 x 17 5/16 in.); Mounted: 114.9 x 63.5 cm (45 1/4 x 25 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1982.11
Location: not on view
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Description

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.
Cucumber and Eggplants

Cucumber and Eggplants

1500s

Yamada Dōan

(Japanese, d. 1571)
Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)

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