Single Scroll 10

Perhaps of the same series as S17, S10's style moves well beyond the cartoonish art typical of most scrolls on this website and could perhaps be described as more painterly, as representative of the genre of Chinese figure painting. Faces are no longer generice and become quite expressive. The floor is tiled. The demons now have muscle tone (or, more interestingly, a lack of muscle as their bodies are not romantically portrayed). If there is a spectrum of "craft" and "art," this scroll is leaning toward the latter. (Image: 79 X 145 cm.)