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Dragons and Tigers (83)
Ancient Art Podcast, Ancient Worlds
English - August 17, 2017 01:15 - 9 minutes - 12.7 MB - ★★★★ - 25 ratingsVisual Arts Arts Society & Culture myths legends ancient art history egypt egyptian greece greek rome Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this excerpt from one of my museum tours, we walk through two starkly contrasting Japanese folding screens celebrating the time-honored, iconic subjects of dragons and tigers with exceptional energy and dynamism.
Features Works of Art:
Kishi Ganku (1749-1838)
Dragon and Tiger, 1835
Pair of six panel screens; ink and gold on paper
Art Institute of Chicago, 2016.314a-b
Morita Shiryu (1912-1998)
Dragon (Ryu), 1965
Four-panel screen; aluminum-flake pigment in polyvinyl acetate medium, and yellow alkyd varnish, on paper
Art Institute of Chicago, 1971.873
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