Birds and Flowers Chinese Scroll Painting – Silk Wall Art – Paradise Flycatcher Wisteria

This Paradise Flycatcher Wisteria scroll keeps its colors honest and its composition open. There is an honesty to it that cheaper decor cannot copy. It anchors a wall the way a hearth anchors a room. The image has a gentle gravity all its own.

Brush, ink, and mineral color on silk remain the classic combination for this kind of image. Washes of color behind the pheasant suggest atmosphere rather than detail. The brush lingers on the peony just long enough. Colorful gongbi feel timeless rather than trendy. In Chinese tradition, the peony stands for wealth and honor, a wish folded quietly into the image.

For symbolic Chinese artwork, it brings the texture of a handmade object. As a piece of symbolic Chinese artwork, it is hard to get wrong and easy to love. All in all, this Paradise Flycatcher Wisteria scroll is the kind of piece you will still be glad to see on the wall years from now.