Artist: Xu Wei
Date: Ming (AD 1368-1644)
Dimensions: Length 103 cm, Width 51 cm
Material: Ink and colour on paper

• Object Type：
  • PAINTINGS
• Tag：
  • hanging scroll flower xu wei ming paper ink and colour

Xu Wei (1520-1593) was skilled in poetry, traditional opera, painting and calligraphy. 
When painting flowers and birds, Xu Wei was swift in strokes with a rich variation in ink and wash, sometimes completely liberated from the real images. However, in the seemingly scrawled brushwork, the dots, lines, and surface, black and white, light and heavy, forceful and soft, dry and wet form sharp contrasts but echo and relate to each other at the same time; thus creating a vibrant feeling, rolling rhythm and overwhelming momentum in the ever-changing vitality of the subjects depicted.