hand scroll
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After a major D.I.A. renovation and expansion, the Korean gallery is a statement about harmony, and the Chinese gallery goes forward and backward in time: ancient objects meant for the afterlife and a digital hand scroll.
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The most effective medium for imaginatively entering a landscape, though, was painting, and specifically in two forms, the hanging scroll and the hand scroll, both traditionally done in ink on silk.
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In a supersized 18th-century hand scroll, one of a set of 12 titled “The Qianlong Emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour,” documents a real event, an imperial tour that took place in 1751.
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A second form of landscape painting, the hand scroll, operates on a different dynamic.
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One, a small, crinkly hand scroll by a 19th-century artist named Yang Tianbi is on first-time view at the Met, though it’s been in the vaults for ages.
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