Shi Tao Flower and Bird Chinese Painting Print – Peach Blossom Album

Shi Tao's peach-blossom album is spring in nine or so leaves: peach blossom, orchid, peony, bamboo, lotus, chrysanthemum, plum blossom — each leaf a small, vivid study, the sequence moving through the flowering year with the individualist's characteristic energy. Shi Tao's flower albums are the individualist's great garden — the rebel's blooms, the brush's energy — and this flowering year has that garden's full vividness: the colors' confidence, the leaves' variety. It is a garden kept in a book, the year's blooms.

Each leaf gets Shi Tao's unmistakable handling: bold, direct, never fussy — blossoms in confident washes, the petals' assurance, leaves in decisive strokes, the compositions varied and lively, the energy's constancy. The album format concentrates the effect; every leaf is a small explosion of seasonal color, the spring's fireworks. Together they are a year that never ends, the flowering's eternity.

Flower albums suit scattered hanging — a leaf here, a group there — or a single statement arrangement, the garden's distribution. The print arrives as the unmounted core only, with no frame or scroll, so presentation is yours to design. A vivid, joyful set.