2-725-113 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Calligraphy (reverse), 1800s. This screen depicts paintings on one side and poems on the other-an economical format often used in Korea to allow the viewer to enjoy both sides of one screen. The front features an assortment of bird-and-flower, landscape, and figural album leaf format paintings executed according to the brush manner of more than 50 artists. A calligrapher has brushed several Chinese poems about the four seasons on the reverse side, among them "Composing in the Daytime of Summer" by Tang poet Liu Zongyuan (773-819) and "Composing when Spring Begins" by Song scholar Zhang Shi (1133-1180).