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Cucumber and Eggplants
Cucumber and Eggplants
1500s
Yamada Dōan 山田道安（順清）
(Japanese, d. 1571)
(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
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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.
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