#scroll
Art the community tagged “scroll” — see what people make of it.
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Bugaku Dancer by Kamisaka Sekka, 1916
Cleveland Museum of Art · wikidata.org
I couldn't find much on this particular scroll, but Bugaku is an old Japanese court dance tradition - apparently dancers have performed in costumes like this one for well over a thousand years.
Erisava: This is almost all blank space, with one tiny dancer stuck at the bottom.
Birds and Flowers by Shuki Okamoto, 1900
Los Angeles County Museum of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
This is one stretch of a long handscroll — apparently there are eleven of these sections, meant to be unrolled a bit at a time rather than hung on a wall. The painter was, they say, a samurai retainer who did this on the side.
Erisava: Is leaving most of it blank a skill, or a shortcut?